Re: monitoring tool for wireless-lan (802.11b)

From: Michael Erskine (osiris@deltaville.net)
Date: 12/13/02 

From: osiris@deltaville.net (Michael Erskine)
Date: 12 Dec 2002 22:39:47 -0800

"Andree" <Andree@nospam-toonk.nl> wrote in message news:<3decfd1a$0$134$e4fe514c@dreader5.news.xs4all.nl>...
> Hello everyone,

Hello...

>
> I´m a network administrator, in our netwerk we´ve got multiple wireless-lan
> (802.11b) hosts.
> I would like to monitor these hosts / network.

Kismet...

> I think the most easy way to accomplish this, is to setup a wirreless
> AcessPoint on a Linux host.

NO!, Kismet ...

> This AccessPoint is used to connect the wireless clients to the
> wired-network.

Hardly, they connect to the dedicated Ap's therefore they do not use
this host, you describe, the Linux AP.

>
> I´m particulare interested in the following information:
> * IPsource addres
> * Link quality of each host
> * which hosts use the access point
> * used frequency´s
> * retransmissions
> * etc...All kind of 802.11b information.

Kismet...

>
> I prefere to keep on using the Accesspoint I already use (hardware
> accespoint, not a linux host).

Then you likely will never get the information you want... Link
quailty in partcular. As a matter of fact *YOU SHOULD KNOW WHAT
FREQUENCIES ARE IN USE* shouldn't you... (This where I start
questioning your motives.)

> Just a linux (or freebsd) host which can listen to the 2,4Ghz frequency
> would be even better!

YOU MEAN YOU WANT A SNIFFER TO SNIFF SOMEONE ELSE'S NETWORK... NOW I
understand.

> I tried to put the wireless card (orinoco/hermes) in promiscuous mode, but
> for some reason this doesn´t work (I even lost connectivity with the
> accesspoint).

You wanted to set promiscuous mode to sniff a network and now you
don't have the courage to admit it, eh... RIGHT.

> I also tried iwlist, this only shows local information, iwspy didn´t show
> anything.

***...

> I hope anyone can advise me about this case...
> I´m curious to find out if there are any tools to monitor/snif my wirelles
> network.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Andree

I can advise you. You are a cracker and no system administrator. Try
alt.2600.whatever.

*** off, go away, get a life. Find a wireless honey net and have a
ball...

-m-