How to examine traffic between devices communicating over local wireless?

[Sephiroth0327]

Not sure if this is really the right place for this question but I thought I'd throw it out to the Networking experts.

Let's say I have two devices (Nintendo 3DS) which are communicating with each other over Local Wireless (not WiFi). Is there any way to examine the traffic between the two devices (whether encrypted or not)?

I am not very familiar with how Local Wireless works and am not sure if there's a way to route that Local Wireless through my PC without actually needing the devices to logon to a WiFi hotspot. Any ideas?

 

[JackMDS]

It is Not clear what technically you have in your setting, and for what purpose you need to " route that Local Wireless through my PC".

Wireless Networks consists on a Wireless Router/Access Point and clients that connect to them.

If you want to connect a computer to the Wireless Router you need to log on with the correct credentials.

 

[Mushkins]

Short answer- you're wasting your time I'm assuming you're trying to use something like Xlink Kai to trick the system into letting you play "local wireless" with other people over the internet. It wont work.

The DS and 3DS use a proprietary protocol for local wireless dubbed "NiFi" for ad-hoc connections. Even if a sniffer could identify the proprietary protocol (none support it that im aware of), its encrypted. To get a PC to connect to a device via NiFi, you would need a custom wireless card, or a wireless card with a custom firmware to support the protocol.

 

[Sephiroth0327]

Short answer- you're wasting your time I'm assuming you're trying to use something like Xlink Kai to trick the system into letting you play "local wireless" with other people over the internet. It wont work.

The DS and 3DS use a proprietary protocol for local wireless dubbed "NiFi" for ad-hoc connections. Even if a sniffer could identify the proprietary protocol (none support it that im aware of), its encrypted. To get a PC to connect to a device via NiFi, you would need a custom wireless card, or a wireless card with a custom firmware to support the protocol.

No that's not what I'm trying to do - even if the data is encrypted I want to see if there's a way to at least see it...even encrypted.

 

[imagoon]

Spectrum analyzer would show you it was there.

http://www.tek.com/spectrum-analyzer

 

[SecurityTheatre]

Spectrum analyzer would show you it was there.

http://www.tek.com/spectrum-analyzer

And it's only $73,000. Perfect!

 

[imagoon]

And it's only $73,000. Perfect!

You picked the cheap one D=

You need the data recording unit.

 

[lexco]

Not sure if this is really the right place for this question but I thought I'd throw it out to the Networking experts.

Let's say I have two devices (Nintendo 3DS) which are communicating with each other over Local Wireless (not WiFi). Is there any way to examine the traffic between the two devices (whether encrypted or not)?

I am not very familiar with how Local Wireless works and am not sure if there's a way to route that Local Wireless through my PC without actually needing the devices to logon to a WiFi hotspot. Any ideas?

WiFi disconnects, https://www.corenetworkz.com/2010/06/wireless-network-keep-connecting-and.html

The DS and 3DS use a proprietary protocol for local wireless dubbed "NiFi" for ad-hoc connections. Even if a sniffer could identify the proprietary protocol (none support it that im aware of), its encrypted. If its 4G phone network, https://www.corenetworkz.com/2012/09/how-to-configure-idea-gprs-2g-3g-on.html

Are you looking for packet captures ? By packet capturing you can test the data transfer between two devices.

 

[John Connor]

What's the purpose???

 

[Mushkins]

No that's not what I'm trying to do - even if the data is encrypted I want to see if there's a way to at least see it...even encrypted.

Again, unless you have something that can specifically identify the protocol used, encrypted or no, your off the shelf wireless card is not going to see it much less know what to do with it. If you're looking to analyze the waves going through the air, well... There's that $100,000 professional solution that was pointed out.

NiFi is a proprietary protocol, whatever it is you're trying to do you can't do with off the shelf equipment or standard network sniffer software.