[shimmy568]

when using wireshark to sniff some packets i couldn't get it to work inside of the virtual machine i was using. how would you do something i'me this. btw I'm using a laptop so this might affect some of the results.[/color]

[hunt3r972]

try to put the virtual ethernet card in bridge mode if you are in NAT or Host Only

if you want to sniff on wireless you have to use a usb stick for wifi. Virtual machines doesn't detect physical built in wifi card

[shimmy568]

try to put the virtual ethernet card in bridge mode if you are in NAT or Host Only

if you want to sniff on wireless you have to use a usb stick for wifi. Virtual machines doesn't detect physical built in wifi card

so there is no way to pipe the connection from wlan0 to an eth0 with no hardware?

[joeb12]

Depending on the virtualisation technology used, it could be that the VM does not allow the virtual interface to go into promiscuos mode, or the virtual device (or even the physical device) does not support promiscuos mode. Additionally the thing that hunt3r972 said.

If you wish to "pipe" data from wlan0 to eth0 (seems silly to me, but there you go - it will change the packets as they do not share the same layer 1 and 2), you could bridge your wlan interface to eth0. In Linux this is fairly easy with brctl and friends (google searches help). I'm not sure (and don't care) about windows...

[hunt3r972]

if your physic computer is connected with a wireless card you can bridge your vm network card to it so it will be like you are sniffing on wlan0 but on eth0 on your vm in this case

but you will be limited (no monitoring mode) and maybe no promiscious mode (I'm not really sure for this)