

Let’s do an experiement now: I will enable the wireless sniffing to capture the wireless Layer 2 frames, then I will put the saved sniffing file in Wireshark to see the output of the sniffing content. It is a special sniffing tool for Wireless, so Layer 2 frames. However, on wireless, the tool is totally different. On MikroTik RouterOS v7, you can sniff Layer 3 packets if you want by going to Tools as following:Īs you see, it is clearly mentionning that this is a Packet Sniffer.

On Wireless, you are sniffing layer 2 frame and not packets. This is something that also hackers do it when they want to hack a network.

As you may know, Sniffer is to capture frame and to check them in a capturing software like Wireshark. In this lesson, I will explain another Wireless Tool that can be used which is the Sniffer tool.
