Howto:Tracing from Trapeze Access Points to Wireshark
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Applies To
This information applies to
- Trapeze WLAN Infrastucture (e.g. MXR-2) (Firmware > 7.0.13.3.0)
- Wireshark (Version > 1.1.2)
- IP72
Summary
This is a quick a dirty introduction to setting up a Trapeze management switch for tracing all 802.11 traffic to a Wireshark running on a PC. For complete and official documents, please visit http://www.trapezenetworks.com. For Wireshark documents, please visit http://www.wireshark.org/.
Settings
Login to a Trapeze management switch through SSH, here the login transcript:
login as: admin Copyright (c) 2002 - 2009 Trapeze Networks, Inc. All rights reserved. Username: admin Password: *trapeze-inno> enable Enter password:
Setup a listener called "mysnoop", make sure to use the address of a local PC running Wireshark instead of 192.168.1.10
*trapeze-inno# *trapeze-inno# set trace dot1x level 9 success: change accepted. *trapeze-inno# set snoop mysnoop observer 192.168.1.10 success: change accepted. *trapeze-inno# set snoop map mysnoop ap 1 radio 1 success: change accepted. *trapeze-inno# set snoop mysnoop mode enable success: change accepted. *trapeze-inno#
Now start Wireshark on the PC 192.168.1.10.
Capture->Options:
- Capture packets in promiscuous mode set.
- Capture Filter: port 37008
- Start
Check if ok, try to locate e.g a beacon packet in Wireshark window.
When done, don't forget to delete the listener:
clear snoop mysnoop