[55831] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Locating rogue APs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael.Dillon@radianz.com)
Wed Feb 12 06:23:50 2003
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:23:12 +0000
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> > It appears that kismet requires either someone to walk around the
facility
> > while running the program or that you have you have it installed on
> > machines all over your site. Neither of those options interest me as
a
> > long term solution to rogue AP monitoring.
> You could setup a laptop, a GPS with a data cable, NetStumbler[free],
> and a 8dbi 2.5ghz <802.11b> antenna and pickup everything clearly
> for a half a mile without walking around. I've just acquired this
> setup myself. Google on "war driving +F150" and you'll see a setup
> to help for < $55
If you are driving then you might want to build something using the DashPC
http://www.dashpc.com/ but for walking around it's even easier if you use
a Linux-based PDA like the Sharp Zaurus which runs kismet.
--Michael Dillon
