title: Using wireshark on the pc to monitor traffic on the Android phone
body: <p>In order to learn how other applications connect to internet services I would like to monitor the traffic via Wireshark on my Linux PC. I know there are Wireshark tools for Android, but these require that the phone is rooted which mine isn't.</p>
  
  <p>I have read several places that if the phone and the pc running wireshark use the same wifi connection, it is possible to monitor the traffic from Wireshark on the pc if it is running in promiscous mode.</p>
  
  <p>I have tried that but I can't see any traffic except this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>77  4.638965    ZygateCo_4f:70:27   Htc_b7:a4:78    LLC I, N(R)=0, N(S)=92; DSAP 0xe2 Individual, SSAP 0x36 Response
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Apart from these lines (which I have no clue what means) there is no traffic from the phone to see in Wireshark.</p>
  
  <p>Are the further steps to perform in order to have this setup working?</p>
  
  <p>Alternatively, are there other ways to intercept the traffic on a <em>un-rooted</em> phone?</p>
  
  <p>(One way is to setup the pc as an access point and then connect the phone to it, but I have not succeeded in setting up my linux pc (Debian) as an AP)</p>