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Re: Wireless Lans give EVERYONE ACCESS


From: diphen () agitation net
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 16:46:38 -0700

Perhaps I'm on crack, but I've never encountered a MAC address of the
format "127.0.0.1". That is typically known as an IP address. A MAC
address is the physical ethernet address of the card. It typically has a
format like:

ether 00:d0:09:1e:be:04

While some cards allow you to change the MAC address, and this is
certainly a problem for networks which use MAC-based authentication, I
don't think that's what you were doing.

-gabe

On Mon, Aug 0 , 2001 at 05:21:08PM -0400, Russell Handorf wrote:
Traditional authentication with wireless lan's consist of the following 
simplified procedure:
1). Wireless nic asks for an IP
2). Base station checks to see if the MAC Address can be passed.
3). If the authentication is successful then the DHCP server leases an IP 
to the Wireless nic.

Today, I have circumvented the MAC Address authentication method, and had 
also sniffed successfully on a switched network with wireless stations on 
it without authentication into the network.

For sniffing onto a wireless network without a registered MAC Address AND 
using WEP Encryption Methods:
1). Set the MAC Address of the card to 127.0.0.1 and the Netmask to 255.255.0.0
2). The card takes care of the rest. Just sit back and listen to the sounds 
of the network (NOTE: There will NOT be any DNS RESOLVING and quite 
possibly NO IP's will show up, only the computers MAC Addressed) (Double 
NOTE: All you need is another machines MAC Address to start a 
Man-in-the-Middle).

For Getting an IP Address for Internet Connectivity:
First Method requires that you have already sniffed on the network for an 
extended amount of time. Needed information is the IP Ranges, Netmask, and 
Gateway of the Lan. All of this can be acquired through HUNT. All you do is 
sift through the data generated, find an IP that hasn't sent any traffic 
take it and configure the other things (such as Netmask and Gateway manually).

Second method requires you to have physical access to the lan. Take a 
hardwired nic and spoof it's MAC Address to that of the wireless nic's 
address. Run a command like 'pump,' swap cards and you should be on the 
network.

The following instructions were executed on a Dell laptop with Redhat 7.0. 
The Ethernet card that was used is a Xircom 10/100 56k Combo thingy and the 
wireless lan card is a Lucent Technologies Wavelan Gold Turbo 128RC4.

The base stations that these were tested on is a D-Link 1000AP, Orinoco 
AP-1000 Access Point, Orinoco COR-1100, and Cisco Aironet 350 Series.

Will someone else please confirm that this is successful?


Thanks

Russ
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