Re: About War Driving ..

[Gouki <Gouki () GoukiHQ org>]

"using a portal capture system that requires you to authenticate before
being able to connected to anything but the portal"

These 'portals' are often very easy to bypass. Most of them only filters
HTML traffic, so, by tunneling the traffic to ICMP (which is often a
forgotten protocol) you can use that Access Point (ptunnel, for
instances). 

With the amount of good text-based applications (which are more easy to
use with a tunnel) you can use IRC, BitTorrent, IM and even browser (if
you like Lynx (= ).

My point being... WPA with authentication on a Radius server is probably
the best choice.

Regards,

Tiago 

On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 00:28 -0800, Larry Offley wrote:
> I suggest switching to WPA or using a portal capture system that 
> requires you to authenticate before being able to connected to anything 
> but the portal. If your equipment can't use WPA and you can't afford to 
> replace them, maybe setting up IPSEC for the clients using the wireless 
> and configure your network to drop all non-IPSEC traffic coming from the 
> wireless router.  Trying to track him down is going to be a waste of 
> your time. What you really need to do is secure your network.
>
> Larry Offley
> www.offley.ca
>
>
> gaurav saha wrote:
> > Hi , 
> > I was wondering if it is possible to locate and catch
> > a guy who is connecting to our wep wireless network
> > and downloading stuff from torrents and using up our
> > bandwidth .. 
> > I checked up with arp scan and found 2 unknown IPs 
> > 192.168.1.246 and 247 
> > Is there anyway of locating the guy in a building of 7
> > floors and how to stop this ..I have tried changing
> > the Wep keys so . he is cracking the wep key.
> > Any Suggestion People ?
> > ---gaurav
> >
> >
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