How to wireshark traffic passing through my wifi AP

Question

I know how to monitor the network interfaces on my local computer with wireshark. But how to monitor the traffic flowing through my wireless access point from connected computers?

It seems like this might not be possible without some kind of special software ON the wireless AP itself?

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

You will have to put your wireless interface in promiscuous mode and then run Wireshark on it, that will capture all the wireless data that your interface can hear.

aircrack-ng has a utility airmon-ng which will create a monitor mode wireless interface. you can also use iwconfig/wlanconfig to put your card in monitor mode, it works for Atheros cards etc.