Port Mirror Wireless LAN Traffic

Hi,

We have RB951G-2HnD and are wondering if there is anyway of using the port mirror functionality to copy the WLAN traffic to one of the ethernet ports for analysis. We specifically want to see the client device MAC addresses.

Right now we have a separate wireless access point connected to one of the RB951G’s ethernet ports with the RB951G acting as a router. We can successfully port mirror WLAN traffic in this configuration but want to be able to use the WLAN functionality of the RB951G rather than a physically separate wireless access point.

Thanks,

Michael Stone

I am trying to do this now also any help would be great

Hardware mirroring is not possible, as the wireless interfaces are not connected to the CPU via the switch chip but directly. But you can use a rule with ****

action=sniff-tzsp

in

/ip firewall mangle

to mirror the frames to an IP address and port TZSP-encapsulated. The criteria would be

in-bridge-interface=wlan1

or

in-interface=wlan1

depending on whether your wireless interface is a member port of a bridge or not; if it is, the common settings for all bridges,

/interface bridge settings

must have

use-ip-firewall

set to

yes

so that it would work the way you need.