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libpcap does not support WiFi AFAIK (or maybe Winpcap doesn't)....does libtins depend on an underlying driver on Windows for WiFi support? How good is the 802.11 support on Windows?

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libpcap does support it. As for Winpcap, I don't know.

Yes, libtins uses libpcap to capture packets (and also to send, if you're using Windows), so basically if winpcap supports it, then it should work on libtins.

Winpcap it seems like does not support capturing raw 802.11 packets and instead presents a pseudo-ethernet interface to the packets captured on WiFi adapters and it only presents the actual ethernet packet to the application using it (not the raw 802.11 packets). To actually capture 802.11, it seems like you need to use 3rd party drivers like Airpcap (which are commercial and it seems like this is a driver/wifi adapter combo). See https://www.winpcap.org/devel.htm....

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