"...if you are a regular Wireshark/Ethereal user on Windows and you deal with wireless networks, this is a MUST HAVE product!"
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Product Description
The USB 2.0 Wireless Capture Adapter for Windows that enables Wireless Capture with Wireshark.
Building or securing wireless networks can be a challenge when your tools don't understand radio waves. AirPcap enables troubleshooting tools like Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) and WinDump to provide information about the wireless protocols and radio signals. AirPcap's dedicated receiver can provide crucial information that other solutions can't.
AirPcap is the first open, affordable and easy to deploy WLAN (802.11b/g) packet capture solution for the Windows platform. AirPcap comes as a USB 2.0 adapter, and has been fully integrated with WinPcap and Wireshark: enabling you to capture and analyse 802.11b/g wireless traffic, including control frames, management frames and power information, using Wireshark on your Windows laptop or desktop PC
AirPcap supports the following operating systems: Windows 2000, Windows XP 32 and 64 bit, Windows Server 2003 32 and 64 bit.
Features
Complete Visibility of Your Wireless Networks
The AirPcap adapter, together with the Wireshark Network Analyser, gives you a detailed view of the 802.11 traffic, including control frames (ACK, RTS, CTS), management frames (Beacon, Probe requests and responses, Association/Disassociation, Authentication/Deauthentication) and data frames. The captured frames include the 802.11 Frame Check Sequence, and it's possible to capture frames with an invalid FCS to spot remote access points with a weak signal.
You will be able to specify the capture channel and see all the traffic it carries, even if the channel is shared by multiple access points. The AirPcap adapter can be configured with one or more WEP keys, so that you will have the option to see (and filter on) unencrypted traffic in Wireshark.
The AirPcap adapter captures per-packet power and rate information. This is useful for mapping your network, detecting weak signal areas, and measuring the transmission efficiency of the stations.
802.11 in Wireshark
The AirPcap adapter can capture on any of the 802.11b/g channels: from 1 to 14. This means complete visibility in any region. Moreover, this makes it a perfect solution for rogue access point detection.
The AirPcap adapter is completely passive. This guarantees non-intrusive monitoring of your wireless network
Advanced Wireless Settings in Wireshark
Portable and Versatile
An external USB-based solution is a big advantage for wireless network analysis:
- You can put it in your pocket, or quickly move it from your PC to your laptop.
- Multi-channel wireless analysis and logging is simply a matter of plugging two or more AirPcap adapters into your laptop or your USB hub.
- You don't need to interrupt your laptop's wireless connection while your network analyser is running.
Multiple AirPcap Adapters in Wireshark
To increase versatility even more, AirPcap and Wireshark come with support for all the major Windows operating systems, including both 32-bit and 64-bit. Support for Windows Vista is already planned.
Easy to Setup. Easy to Use.
You will start working in seconds, thanks to the integrated driver and software installer that configures your system and installs Wireshark.
The AirPcap Installer
You will be able to perform common operations (e.g. changing the capture channel) from the Wireshark toolbar, thanks to the Wireshark user interface extensions provided by CACE. Alternatively, a user-friendly external configuration panel will always be easily reachable to be used with any other application.
The AirPcap Control Panel
The Performance You Need.
The AirPcap adapter and driver take full advantage of the 480Mbps bus bandwidth of USB 2.0, guaranteeing high transfer rates even in the most demanding situations.
The driver takes full advantage of the same architecture that makes WinPcap an industrial standard, including kernel-level packet buffering and filtering, aggressive copy minimization and system call reduction.
Ready to Power Your Application!
The open, powerful and well documented AirPcap API is designed to be used in any application that needs low-level access to 802.11 wireless networks. Its integration with WinPcap makes it possible to add wireless support to your application with minimal effort for you and your customers.
In order to cut your development time, we provide a free developer's pack (get it from the downloads section below), which contains:
- The include files and the libraries needed to interface with the AirPcap adapters
- Comprehensive online documentation
- A set of ready-to-compile example programs, that demonstrate every feature of the API, and its integration with WinPcap
Example Program from the Developer's Pack
The AirPcap developer's pack supports both Visual Studio 6/2003/2005 and the GNU/Cygwin compilers. The latter allows easy portability of Linux and UNIX applications.
Download links (Version 1.0.0.594)
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Laura Chappell
