RE: wireless access point

["Christopher Harrington" <charrington () syseng com>]

Netstumbler does not detect AP's that do not broadcast their SSID. I know Kismet and Wellenreiter do, I cant speak for 
the others.

--Chris


-----Original Message-----
From: Luiz Otávio Duarte [mailto:lod () acmesecurity org] 
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 9:54 PM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: RE: wireless access point


Hi,

> Is there any way of detecting wireless access point that doesn't 
> broadcast
> the SSID?

Yep, It's possible. I will tell you why:

   We have two probing modes for channels in a 802.11 network.

  - Activing probe - Is when the prober machine exchange some probe frames 
with the AP.

  - RFMON - Radio Frequency Monitor (Passive probe) - when the probe machine 
capture all data in the channel and try to find some SSID (Service Set 
Identification)

  You can find AP that does not broadcast the SSID using any probe technique.

  You can use: Netstumbler, DStumbler, Kismet, Wellenreiter, THC-RUT, 
WEPCrack, AirSnort, .... 

That's All Folks! 

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