Bridging a wireless adapter

[mtgarden]

I am attempting to setup a snort VM in Player 3 to watch wireless networks.

My setup:

Host: Win 7 Pro x64

Guest: Ubuntu 9.05

I bridged eth0 and started eth0 with in listening mode like this:

auto eth1

iface eth1 inet manual

up ifconfig eth1 up

When I connect to a wireless network, I run

#tcpdump -i eth0

in an effort to see that the bridge is capturing the data properly. All that I can capture is broadcast traffic. That doesn't make a lot of sense. I am deliberately generating traffic over the wireless AP to get things to capture. I'm not certain if this is a Linux issue, Win 7 x64 issue, a VMWare Player issue or a wireless driver issue.

Any thoughts or suggestions? I'm not certain what data I need to provide to get assistance. Thanks in advance.

Matt

[continuum]

the only way to use special Linux based wireless tools is to use an WLAN-USB-adapter directly attached to the Linux-VM.

If you use bridged network to a wireless adapter used by the host all you will see in the Linux guest is either a vlance,vmxnet or e1000 virtual adapter but NOT the wireless device




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[mtgarden]

OK. I do recall now hearing that this won't work correctly. Any idea why I would acquire ARP but nothing else? Just curious.

Anyone make a recommendation on a USB wireless card that will do what I want?

thanks.

[continuum · Accepted solution]

I use the "Alfa Network AWUS036H USB 2.0 Highpower WLAN Adapter"

along with a Backtrack VM.

This device maybe illegal in some countries as it is so powerful 😉




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[mtgarden]

Thank you.