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very simple setup to capture traffic between wifi camcorder and android phone

Hi, I need a very simple setup to capture the traffic between a wifi enabled camcorder and an Android smartphone.

I got an AirPcap (capture only) and the Wireshark 1.2.5 running in Windows, I know the SSID of the camcorder and its password but I don't have the same information of the Android device.

How can I do to filter all the rest of the traffic and see only these two devices?

Thanks!

wificamcorder

asked 13 Feb '15, 06:40

andrew500w
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That's a very old version of Wireshark, you really should upgrade to the latest 1.12.x

(13 Feb '15, 07:53) grahamb ♦

One Answer:

Perform a capture and find the Beacon frames from the camcorder. If you know the SSID, you can apply the display filter wlan_mgt.ssid =="SSID-name" where you place the name of the SSID instead of the SSID-name. Open a Beacon frame from the camcorder and write down the Transmitter/Source MAC address.
In the Android phone, go to the WiFi settings and select Advanced from the menu. You will see the MAC address of the device.

Now you know the MAC addresses of the AP and the STA. Apply the following capture filter: ether host <mac-1> and ether host <mac-2>

For example: ether host 00:00:00:00:00:00 and ether host 00:00:00:00:00:01

To add a capture filter in Wireshark, go to Capture in the top menu and select Options.

answered 13 Feb '15, 07:34

Amato_C
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Thanks a lot!!!

(13 Feb '15, 07:46) andrew500w