Re: Hacking Exposed: Wireless Lab Equipment

[Colin Vallance <crvallance () gmail com>]

1200s are pretty old news at this point.  Unless you want to get in to
learning (old) cisco gear it might be more trouble than it's worth.  If you
just want to learn to perfect some attacks and play with wep/wpa breakage go
get a cheap linksys/netgear/etc that you can setup in different
configurations.  If you want more bang for your buck try to find something
that'll also take DD-WRT/tomato/openwrt/etc.

As the others mentioned the ALFA card is great w/ backtrack.  External
antennas aren't the end-all, be-all necessarily though.  While it *can* be
useful it isn't always the case as RF is a two way street.  Following the
Hacking Exposed book with one of those should be a snap though.

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Gibson, Samuel <gibsons () my uwstout edu>wrote:

> Hello List,
>
> I just finished school and am looking forward to some time to study
> something I want to look into.  I was planning on reading Hacking Exposed:
> Wireless (2nd Edition).  I was wondering if anyone has any equipment
> recommendations as to what will allow me to test some of the techniques
> covered in the book in a lab setting.  I am on a fairly limited budget.  I
> do have an older Cisco Aeronet 1200 AP that supports 802.11b, but not A or
> G.
>
> Any recommendations on an inexpensive wireless card that supports pigtails?
>
> I am not concerned about the zigbee section at this time, but would also
> like to work on some of the Bluetooth stuff.  Any input would be
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Sam
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