[asterisk-users] OT: Question about Wifi sniffing on network

[Gordon Henderson]

On Sat, 12 Sep 2009, randulo wrote:

> Hi Gordon,
>
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Gordon Henderson
> <gordon+asterisk at drogon.net> wrote:
>> It shouldn't "reach out", but it will pass on ARP and other broadcasts
>> from Ethernet to Wi-Fi and back again.
>>
>> I don't know what "Free" is - I'm guessing some sort of community mesh
>> network? Snooping any public wi-fi is going to reveal lots and lots of
>> stuff you really would rather not see - or that the users would rather you
>> didn't see!!!
>
> "Freebox" is the name of the branded router from Free, an ISP. They do
> DSL and are one of the biggest ISP in France.
>
> I can't figure out why I'm seeing these things as they are not TCP/IP
> or at least Wireshark doesn't understand them at all. It does show
> MACs though and when I looked them up they were belonging to the
> company that makes the Freebox.

OK. If it's not ARP or other broadcasts, it may be something like spanning 
tree which might identify as "802.1d" from tcpdump and tshark.

Gordon