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Capturing Bluetooth on windows 7

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Hi, How can i capture Bluetooth packets on Windowns 7/XP? Which hardware is required for capturing the packets?

Regards, Manjunath

asked 08 Jul '13, 02:42

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edited 10 Jul '13, 07:33

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There is no Bluetooth support in WinPcap, which means you cannot capture Bluetooth on Windows 7 with Wireshark. There may be other tools for Windows, and I leave it up to you to google them ;-)

Anyway, you can do it on Linux with Wireshark. Please see the following links:

http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/Bluetooth
http://ask.wireshark.org/questions/15837/what-equipment-can-i-use-to-capture-bluetooth-packets

Regards
Kurt

answered 10 Jul '13, 07:35

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edited 10 Jul '13, 07:35

Can I use it on Linux running on a virtual machine for windows 7?

(22 Dec '13, 16:43) Luiz Felipe