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You can technically start sniffing away without "connecting" to the network. Terry is correct, if the network is open (no encryption, WEP/WPA/WPA2) then you can just "Join" the network and sniff the traffic. However, you do not need to join the network to sniff the traffic. WLANs use radio frequencies, all you have to do is match the freq (channel) and ...
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The first step in any sort of MITM attack on a network is connecting to the network. With a wired network, that involves somehow connecting your machine to the network through the use of an Ethernet cable. With a wireless network, you just need to connect to the network.. well, wirelessly. Without a requiring a password to connect to a wireless network, ...
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Mayank Sharma advice is technically right but might not work in most of the environments because organizations/individuals use network switches nowadays which route data only to the intended recipient. Wireshark would work only where network hubs are used which broadcast the traffic to every node in the network.
In order to sniff traffic in switched ...
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Your question provides very limited information. It seems that you are in the same LAN as the people you are willing to monitor. In such a case in order to monitor the traffic you can use the Wireshark tool to capture packets and analyse all the unencrypted content (passive sniffing).
I am assuming that you are not in a switched network because then you ...
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