RE: [OT] wireless network sniffers

["John Andrews" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you get an IP address do a port scan, download WhatsUp Gold - it will do
a port scan of your subnet for DNS, DHCP, Proxy, HTTP etc etc


-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Hawes,Timothy Edward (GEG)
Sent: 06 September 2005 16:32
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] wireless network sniffers

John,

NetStumber would be my first port of call (www.netstumbler.com). See the
downloads section for a free app to locate wireless networks. To find out
where the AP is you'll probably have to do a bit of wandering around with a
laptop/tablet running NS and figuring out which direction gives the
strongest reception. NS will return MAC address, SSID, AP manufacturer,
locked/unlocked etc.

There are loads of Linux tools out there too - I've not used any but kismet
and airsnort might be two to start with. A lot of these apps are
"sold" as
network analysis tools and, apparently, the support forums can get a bit
snotty if they suspect you are a hacker. Tread carefully :-) (again, no
personal experience, but a colleague was browsing round and found some
heated comments...although I don't know If it was on the forums for those
two specific apps or not.)

If you've got a PDA then there are other apps for that too, Mini-stumbler
(from NetStumbler), and even "wifi fo-fum" (or something like
that) which
runs on an XDA :-)

Good luck,

Tim.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benfield, John (Penta)
>
> I have a wireless network at home that works most of the time. However
> on the occasions that I can't get a network I pickup another network
> with a very stone signal (I normally get 1-2Mbps, this give 11Mpbs).
> My PC gets allocated an IP address (via DHCP) but I don't appear to be
> able to do anything else. I'm trying to find out what this network is,
> the name that coming up is complete gibberish. The really strange this
> that we are quite literally in the middle of fields. The nearest house
> is about 1km away (as the radio waves fly), so I can't believe that it
> a home network. Also the icon in the control panel comes up as an
> oblong with a circle above it (rather than the normal aerial icon).
>
> Any ideas about what it could be, or how I would go about finding out
> would be most helpful. I did do some goggling but there is just too
> much information out there.
>
> JB