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Re: Tools for Detecting Wireless APs - from the wire side.
From: Pierre Vandevenne <pierre () datarescue com>
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 20:52:56 +0200
Hello Isherwood, Friday, June 07, 2002, 8:22:13 PM, you wrote: IJCCAI> I'm doing some research for a paper on wireless security, and I've been IJCCAI> trying to find a decent way for an administrator to probe his network for IJCCAI> APs that might be attached. IJCCAI> Is there anything else out there? Assuming you know the SNMP passwords, Solarwinds is very good (www.solarwinds.net) at gathering information. If you don't know them, bruteforcing snmp widely isn't a good idea as it can lock up Cisco equipment (among others) and you'll immediately attract attention. If you are checking your own network, of course, it could be easier since any device having a password different from the ones you assigned is suspect and if it has the same password, you get the info anyway. In a recent audit, what we did was a combination of extensive GPS assisted netstumbling, when we had an approximate idea of the location of the devices, we looked at the ARP tables of the plausible Ciscos. We also searched for specific ranges of Mac addresses known to be used by APs or outside the range of the standard devices used by the company. Certainly not perfect but worked well enough. I very interested in a better method, if there is one. -- Best regards, Pierre mailto:pierre () datarescue com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus Security Intelligence Alert (SIA) Service. For more information on SecurityFocus' SIA service which automatically alerts you to the latest security vulnerabilities please see: https://alerts.securityfocus.com/
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- Tools for Detecting Wireless APs - from the wire side. Isherwood Jeff C Contr AFRL/IFOSS (Jun 09)
- Re: Tools for Detecting Wireless APs - from the wire side. Kroma Pierre (Jun 10)
- Re: Tools for Detecting Wireless APs - from the wire side. insane (Jun 10)
- Re: Tools for Detecting Wireless APs - from the wire side. dcdave (Jun 18)
- RE: Tools for Detecting Wireless APs - from the wire side. Greg (Jun 10)
- RE: Tools for Detecting Wireless APs - from the wire side. Jon (Jun 10)
- Re: Tools for Detecting Wireless APs - from the wire side. Pierre Vandevenne (Jun 10)
- Re: Tools for Detecting Wireless APs - from the wire side. Matthew Leeds (Jun 10)
- Re: Tools for Detecting Wireless APs - from the wire side. Martin Glazer (Jun 18)
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- RE: Tools for Detecting Wireless APs - from the wire side. Soren Macbeth (Jun 10)
- RE: Tools for Detecting Wireless APs - from the wire side. Isherwood Jeff C Contr AFRL/IFOSS (Jun 10)
- RE: Tools for Detecting Wireless APs - from the wire side. Kohlenberg, Toby (Jun 10)
- RE: Tools for Detecting Wireless APs - from the wire side. Duffy, Shawn (Jun 10)
- FW: Tools for Detecting Wireless APs - from the wire side. Rosado, Rafael (Rafael) (Jun 10)
- Re: Tools for Detecting Wireless APs - from the wire side. Lot Flo (Jun 11)
- Re: Tools for Detecting Wireless APs - from the wire side. Kroma Pierre (Jun 10)