Re: PPP authentication brute-force attack?

Matheus Michels wrote:
> > PAP basically is plain text. Why don't you just sniff the passwords off 
> > the wire?
> >     
>
> Is just this what I originally wanted to do, using Wireshark. But, for some reason, it doesn't capture PAP packets other than those sent by my machine. All other protocols are captured OK. I've posted a question about this in the Wireshark mailing list, but no replies. I'm in a wireless LAN, so this puzzles me.
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You have to put your wireless card in "monitoring" mode and then you can 
sniff packets coming from other peers of the WLAN. I think there was 
something on the topic at aircrack-ng's wiki. Check this link:
http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=faq
paste from above link:
"Under Linux, simply setup the card in monitor mode with the airmon-ng 
<http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=airmon-ng> script. Under 
Windows, Wireshark can capture 802.11 packets using AirPcap 
<http://www.cacetech.com/products/airpcap.htm>. Except in very rare 
cases, Ethereal cannot capture 802.11 packets under Windows."

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