Re: Wireless sniffer

["H. Morrow Long" <morrow.long () YALE EDU>]

AirMagnet does more than sniffing (e.g. it
can monitor the security of your WLANs by
alerting you to rogue stations and access
points as well as flag other problems -- such
as overlap/collision of signal between APs on the
same or adjacent channels, etc.).  Other $$ tools:

AiroPeek
Sniffer Wireless
Wireless Security Advisor
Wireless Scanner
AirMagnet
WaveRunner
vxSniffer
Optiview Wireless Network Analyzer 

That done, there are a number of open source tools
you can use on Unix (e.g. *BSD), MacOS, Linux and
Windows ( 32 bit i386 and CE/PocketPC):

MacOS X

I use MacOS 10.3 and one of the neat things (other
than the builtin 802.11b and g) is that you can just
use all of the standard network sniffing tools (tcpdump,
ngrep, etc.) on the wireless interface (usually en1) for free.

There is also MacStumbler for detecting both non-WEP
and WEP WLANS, and KisMAC is also nice.

Unix/BSD/Linux :

AirSnort
WEPCrack
Bsd-airtools
Wellenreiter
Kismet
AirTraf
WaveStumbler

Windows (i386 32 bit):

Aerosol
ApSniff
NetworkStumbler
WLAN Expert
AirSnare
Packetyzer

Windows (PocketPC):

AirScanner
PocketWarrior

- H. Morrow Long, CISSP, CISM
University Information Security Officer
Director -- Information Security Office
Yale University, ITS


On Jul 23, 2004, at 9:17 AM, Ariel Silverstone wrote:

> Hello,
>  
> Does anyone know of other good tools that function like AirMagnet?
>  
> Thank you,
>  
> Ariel Silverstone
>  
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