Re: Wireless access points

[neil davis <rg.viza () gmail com>]

They aren't always accurate. Our load balancer gets ID'd as a D-Link WAP
every time it's scanned. The idiots call us and tell us we have a WAP in
our network every month. Same scan tool, same idiots, same IP. The
scanners are a great tool, but you need to use them intelligently and
take it all with a grain of salt.

They are fairly accurate but not perfect.

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 17:37 -0400, sbernard () gmu edu wrote:
> Most vulnerability scanners have the ability to identify APs on the wired side, although it's primarily done by 
> parsing banners or SNMP.  Nmap has some fingerprints as well.  I've seen wireless security products that purport to 
> have more accurate means for identification, but it's probably just that they concentrated on creating more AP 
> specific fingerprints than Nmap and the like.
>
>
> Steve
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: wilder_jeff Wilder <wilder_jeff () msn com>
> Date: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 4:58 pm
> Subject: [Full-disclosure] Wireless access points
>
> > Is anyone aware of a method to scan your network for wireless 
> > devices using 
> > the ethernet side of the device rather then the wireless?   I have 
> > a remote 
> > location that I need to scan for wireless deivces and am looking 
> > for a 
> > method execute them remotely.
> >
> >
> > any ideas?
> >
> > -Jeff
> >
> >
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