FW: Mapping wireless LANS from the wired side

From: Mike.Ruscher@CSE-CST.GC.CA
Date: 08/24/01 

Message-ID: <A7896A2B763AD511B27C00AA00DD93711FF22B@niagara.its.cse.dnd.ca>
From: Mike.Ruscher@CSE-CST.GC.CA
To: pen-test@securityfocus.com
Subject: FW: Mapping wireless LANS from the wired side
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 12:48:30 -0400

Ok, I stand corrected.

The wap-nmap readme file states:

"#INTRODUCTION#

Okay basically wap-nmap is nothing more than a script that performs an
nmap scan of a user input IP address or hostname and pumps the results
back out to a wap enabled device... most often than not this happens to be"

So I guess this scan can be from a mobile or a wired network device.

It still doesn't differentiate what is a wireless IP address from a wired
one, which was my query.

Thanks Jeremy.

mgr

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Sanders [mailto:jsanders@newsouthfederal.com]
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 12:24 PM
To: Mike.Ruscher@CSE-CST.GC.CA
Subject: RE: Mapping wireless LANS from the wired side

>This would still only scan from the wireless side,
>but is still an
>interesting tool.

It doesn't scan from the wireless side. It scans from where ever the web
server it is sitting on is located. All wap-nmap is is a set of wml and php
files that redirect your input to a command line and feed the output back to
the wap device. Which btw is completely different from 802.11b.

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