Re: Wired detection of rogue access points

[krymson () gmail com]

Unless there is a backbone to a wireless network passing over your ethernet lines, you really won't be able to 
specifically detect a wireless AP on your network. You could just detect for rogue systems/MACs if you track that kind 
of stuff. A rogue WAP just looks like any old rogue system.

Your best bet is a laptop with a wireless adapter running a *nix version and kismet. That way you can just turn it on, 
see if you can detect wireless networks in your area, and investigate.

Get the MAC of the APs and see if you can find that MAC on your network.


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Can anyone point me to a wired LAN scanner/sniffer that detects wireless access points connected to the LAN?

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