How does JamWiFi finds the mac address of the devices associated with a network?

unixpickle / JamWiFi

A GUI, easy to use WiFi network jammer for Mac OS X

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How does JamWiFi finds the mac address of the devices associated with a network? #23

Closed huangzonghao closed 6 years ago

huangzonghao commented 6 years ago

This tool is awesome! Thanks for building it!

I am just wondering which tool you are using to get the mac address of the devices which are exchanging packets with the AP? Are there any neat tool that I can use in command line? Thanks!

unixpickle commented 6 years ago

Currently, I put the WiFi card into promiscuous mode and then use libpcap to capture all the packets being received by the card. This includes packets from other hosts, and the MACs of these hosts are stored in an unencrypted fashion.