Cace Technologies AirPcap Wireless Capture Adapters AirPcap and Wireshark, The Wireless Toolbar

AirPcap and Wireshark

The user interface of Wireshark is completely integrated with AirPcap. This increases your productivity, and allows you to get the best from the network analyzer you are used to.

Identifying the AirPcap Adapters in Wireshark

Figure 5 shows the Wireshark Capture Interfaces dialog

(Capture→Interfaces). The AirPcap Interfaces are easly identified by icon next to them.

Multi-Channel Aggregator

AirPcap N Adapter is

not included in the

Multi-Channel Aggregator

USB AirPcap Adapters

are all included in the

Multi-Channel Aggregator

Figure 5: The Wireshark Adapters List

When you insert more than one USB AirPcap adapter, you will see an additional capture interface, called AirPcap Multi-Channel Aggregator. This interface aggregates the traffic from all the available USB AirPcap adapters, and allows them to be used as a single multi-channel capture device.

The Wireless Toolbar

Figure 6 shows the Wireshark wireless toolbar. The wireless toolbar provides a fast and productive way to set up the most important wireless capture settings.

The wireless toolbar appears when at least one AirPcap adapter is plugged into one of the USB ports, and can be used to change the parameters of the currently active wireless interfaces. If the currently active interface is not an airpcap adapter, the wireless toolbar will be grayed.

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