Multiple Kismet Drones

[paul at pauldotcom.com (Paul Asadoorian)]

Larry's paper can be found here:

http://www.sans.org/reading_room/whitepapers/honors/1671.php -
"Discovering Rogue Wireless Access Points Using Kismet and Disposable
Hardware" December, 2006

Dimitrios Kapsalis wrote:
> Hi Micheal,
>  
> Where can I find Larry's SANS paper you referenced?
>  
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Michael Boyd <denied39 at gmail.com
> <mailto:denied39 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I'll be the WRT54GL for all drones. Actually, for this new rollout, I
>     was using Larry's SANS paper as a guide. I was planning on having two
>     drones per floor. Looking at the floor plans, that should be ample
>     coverage. The drones would channel hop, not sure how to handle the
>     "hop across same channel" though. I'll have to look into that aspect a
>     little more.
>
>     I'll post over at Kismet and see what they say as well.
>
>     Thanks for the response.
>
>
>     On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Paul Asadoorian
>     <paul at pauldotcom.com <mailto:paul at pauldotcom.com>> wrote:
>     > I have, but I don't remember the answer :)  Larry?
>     >
>     > I want to say that Kismet-newcore will give you all of this
>     > functionality, including RSSI information and differentiation between
>     > drones.
>     >
>     > However, I'd recommend that you ask the Kismet list (and specifically
>     > dragorn) for the specifics.  It may also depend on your
>     chipset/driver,
>     > whether you want 802.11a or b or g or n all all of the above, etc...
>     >
>     > Also, will your drones both be channel hopping?  Will they hop across
>     > the same channel?  If so, how is that handled?
>     >
>     > Thanks!
>     >
>     > Cheers,
>     > Paul
>     >
>     > Michael Boyd wrote:
>     >> Hello everyone. I've been running a two kismet drone setup at my
>     >> office for about a year now, and it's working great. Just last week I
>     >> was asked if I could scale the setup to three different states with
>     >> around 25 drones, and all reporting back to one main kismet server.
>     >> The big driver in using this method is cost, but I'm fully aware that
>     >> at some point the cost benefit will drop off. Basically, I'm
>     wondering
>     >> if this is even possible, and if so, has anyone ever attempted
>     >> something similar?
>     >>
>     >> Regards,
>     >> Mike
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