Datasheet 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 it's been fully integrated with WinPcap and Wireshark: it enables you to capture and analyze 802.11b/g wireless traffic, including control frames, management frames and power information, using Wireshark on your Windows laptop. AirPcap supports the following operating systems: Windows 2000, Windows XP 32 and 64 bit, Windows Server 2003 32 and 64 bit. 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. 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. Features
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. |
