WiFi

Why For analysing what devices do on a network - specifically the shared medium of a wireless LAN - just packet tracing based on IP address is often not sufficient. There are multicasts, the initial DHCP requests, and potentially other types of traffic not captured by that.

Imagine the following setting: there is some (possibly 802.11a/b/g wireless) network, which can range from a single access point to a complete backbone network of access points working together via WDS, or even a wired network infrastructure.