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Re: Detection of Rogue Access Points


From: Chris Boot <bootc () bootc net>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:31:05 +0100

On 18/10/12 15:12, Joe Hamelin wrote:
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Jonathan Rogers<quantumfoam () gmail com>
  wrote:

I like the idea of looking at the ARP table periodically, but this presents
some possible issues for us.

Is it just WAPs that you are worried about or any rouge device at the
remote sites?  If you're doing medical data then I would think that any
non-company device would be suspect.  If that is the case then ARP scraping
is the better way.  Basically you need an inventory of what is at the
sites.  This you should already have and if you don't, that is your first
step.

A bit of perl and expect scripting would get you a long way to your goal.
  Like I mentioned before, if you don't have the time/talent to script the
task, call out for a coder-for-hire.

You should be able to get the ARP table off a router using SNMP, which would be much cleaner than using expect to login to a router's management interface...

HTH,
Chris



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