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How can I capture Bluetooth packets without any dongle by macOS?

asked 2019-10-26 02:34:05 +0000

hiroga gravatar image

I want to capture Bluetooth packets like PacketLogger.

Some article says Wireshark needs a dongle to capture Bluetooth packets. However, MacBook has own receiver and it enables MacBook to use BlueTooth.

I want to choose the native capture interface, but I cannot find it ( or do not know the correct name)

How can I capture Bluetooth packets by my MacBook?

Environment:

  • MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015)
  • macOS Catalina(10.15)
  • Wireshark 3.0.5, installed by Homebrew cask
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answered 2019-10-26 04:05:03 +0000

Guy Harris gravatar image

I want to choose the native capture interface, but I cannot find it ( or do not know the correct name)

It doesn't have a name, because it's not an interface that libpcap supports or that a Wireshark extcap module supports.

PacketLogger uses an internal, undocumented mechanism. I looked at the code a long time ago when I was at Apple and had access to the source; I no longer have access, and don't remember what the mechanism was, but it wasn't a documented mechanism, so I couldn't add it to, for example, libpcap.

How can I capture Bluetooth packets by my MacBook?

Use PacketLogger, and then read the PacketLogger trace with Wireshark.

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Thank you for your answer! I will capture packets by PaketLogger and see .pklg file by Wireshark.

hiroga gravatar imagehiroga ( 2019-10-26 06:25:54 +0000 )edit

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