RE: Wifi monitoring

2011-03-03 Thread Maglinger, Paul
: Wifi monitoring What we always said about trying to design a product: There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it twice. Carl -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 11:03 AM To: NT System

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2011-03-02 Thread John Aldrich
-nessus-to-discover-rogue-access-points.html -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 1:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wifi monitoring Looks cool, I don't have a twitter or FB account. On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 09:40

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2011-03-02 Thread Jonathan Link
Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 5:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wifi monitoring I'm familiar with it. It suffers from the same problem as nmap. Kurt On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 13:26, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Kurt

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2011-03-02 Thread John Aldrich
Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wifi monitoring iPad has a EULA, doesn't it? On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:57 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Ok. Well, I'm out of ideas... :-( Good luck! You may have to end up mapping your network with a laptop (or iPad) and some sort of scanner

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2011-03-02 Thread Jonathan Link
the heck you wanted on it. :-) From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 9:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wifi monitoring iPad has a EULA, doesn't it? On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:57 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote

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2011-03-02 Thread Ken Schaefer
2:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wifi monitoring Another suggestion I just got off another list: Motorola Air Defense -- http://www.airdefense.net/ Not sure the cost, but it's bound to be cheaper than Cisco's products. :-) Here's the full comment from the other list: Unless he

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2011-03-02 Thread John Aldrich
Ahh… From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 9:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wifi monitoring My comment was more for someone else's benefit... :-) On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:26 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote

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2011-03-02 Thread Don Ely
, March 01, 2011 1:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wifi monitoring Looks cool, I don't have a twitter or FB account. On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 09:40, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: I used this on my traveling laptop, it did a pretty good job. http://www.makayama.com

Re: Wifi monitoring

2011-03-02 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Don Ely don@gmail.com wrote: That is very true Ken...  I was just having this conversation yesterday with a coworker...  There is always a way to do it cheaper today, but at what cost tomorrow? If you think it costs a lot to do it right, just wait until

Re: Wifi monitoring

2011-03-02 Thread Don Ely
You may have coined it, but I know I've said it many times in my career On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Don Ely don@gmail.com wrote: That is very true Ken... I was just having this conversation yesterday with a

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2011-03-02 Thread Erik Goldoff
, 2011 11:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wifi monitoring On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Don Ely don@gmail.com wrote: That is very true Ken...  I was just having this conversation yesterday with a coworker...  There is always a way to do it cheaper today, but at what cost

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2011-03-02 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
there's some sort of wi-fi scanner in the app store. :-) Or you could get an Android tablet and load whatever the heck you wanted on it. :-) From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 9:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wifi monitoring iPad

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2011-03-02 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
on it. :-) From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 9:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wifi monitoring iPad has a EULA, doesn't it? On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:57 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Ok. Well, I'm out

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2011-03-02 Thread Kurt Buff
... :-( Good luck! You may have to end up mapping your network with a laptop (or iPad) and some sort of scanner. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 5:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wifi monitoring I'm familiar

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2011-03-02 Thread Kurt Buff
detect rogue APs. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, 2 March 2011 2:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wifi monitoring Another suggestion I just got off another list: Motorola Air Defense -- http

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2011-03-02 Thread Don Ely
2011 2:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wifi monitoring Another suggestion I just got off another list: Motorola Air Defense -- http://www.airdefense.net/ Not sure the cost, but it's bound to be cheaper than Cisco's products. :-) Here's the full comment from the other list

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2011-03-02 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Don Ely don@gmail.com wrote: If you think it costs a lot to do it right, just wait until you find out how much it costs to do it wrong. (I think I actually coined that, although it may be a case of multiple independent derivation.) You may have coined

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2011-03-02 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Made perfect sense to me. -sc From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 9:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wifi monitoring My comment was more for someone else's benefit... :-) On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:26 AM, John Aldrich jaldr

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2011-03-02 Thread Carl Houseman
Subject: Re: Wifi monitoring On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Don Ely don@gmail.com wrote: That is very true Ken...  I was just having this conversation yesterday with a coworker...  There is always a way to do it cheaper today, but at what cost tomorrow? If you think it costs a lot to do

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2011-03-01 Thread John Aldrich
://freshmeat.net/projects/wifiscanner -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 8:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Wifi monitoring All, Now that I have a Win7 Pro laptop of my very own at work, I have put some utilities

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2011-03-01 Thread John Aldrich
Another Linux app that looks interesting is Kismet: http://www.kismetwireless.net/ -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 8:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Wifi monitoring All, Now that I have a Win7 Pro laptop

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2011-03-01 Thread Miguel Gonzalez
And this tool? http://www.metageek.net/products/inssider/ --- El mar, 1/3/11, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com escribió: De: John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com Asunto: RE: Wifi monitoring Para: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Fecha: martes, 1 de

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2011-03-01 Thread John Aldrich
I believe the OP mentioned he was already using it. :-) -Original Message- From: Miguel Gonzalez [mailto:miguel_3_gonza...@yahoo.es] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 8:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wifi monitoring And this tool? http://www.metageek.net/products/inssider

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2011-03-01 Thread John Aldrich
[mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 8:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Wifi monitoring All, Now that I have a Win7 Pro laptop of my very own at work, I have put some utilities on it to monitor my wifi environment. I've started with: InSSIDer Xirrus WifiMonitor

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2011-03-01 Thread Michael B. Smith
...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 8:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wifi monitoring I did a quick search on Freshmeat.net and found something that might do the job... it's called Wifi Scanner and it's free. The catch is you have to be running linux. :-) So, get an inexpensive

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2011-03-01 Thread John Aldrich
That works too. :-) -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 9:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wifi monitoring Trivial to run linux inside a VM on Win7. I used to do it all the time, until I got MinGW up

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2011-03-01 Thread Daniel Rodriguez
[mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 8:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wifi monitoring I did a quick search on Freshmeat.net and found something that might do the job... it's called Wifi Scanner and it's free. The catch is you have to be running linux. :-) So

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2011-03-01 Thread Kurt Buff
: Wifi monitoring Para: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Fecha: martes, 1 de marzo, 2011 08:39 I did a quick search on Freshmeat.net and found something that might do the job... it's called Wifi Scanner and it's free. The catch is you have to be running linux. :-) So

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2011-03-01 Thread Kurt Buff
it and install Ubuntu or something on it... :-) Here's a link to the project page: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wifiscanner -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 8:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Wifi monitoring All

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2011-03-01 Thread Kurt Buff
Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 8:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wifi monitoring I did a quick search on Freshmeat.net and found

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2011-03-01 Thread John Aldrich
To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wifi monitoring Interesting, but no port for FreeBSD - but Ubuntu is only a few keystrokes away. More limiting is that still seems to need someone to wander around with a laptop and click a lot. Looking for something that would allow me to manipulate

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2011-03-01 Thread Michael B. Smith
, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 12:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wifi monitoring Ya know, I bet you could teach a class on that last

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2011-03-01 Thread Donnellan, John
- Original Message - From: John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Tue Mar 01 12:31:06 2011 Subject: RE: Wifi monitoring Kurt, what sort of area are you talking about? I'm guessing with 15 APs, it's probably pretty

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2011-03-01 Thread John Cook
, VTSP4 -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 12:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wifi monitoring You referring to the MinGW piece? I was surprised at how non-trivial it was. Constructing the tool chain

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2011-03-01 Thread Andrew S. Baker
, March 01, 2011 12:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wifi monitoring Ya know, I bet you could teach a class on that last... On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 06:33, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: Trivial to run linux inside a VM on Win7. I used to do it all the time, until I

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2011-03-01 Thread Kurt Buff
to detect rogue APs  - http://mail.pauldotcom.com/pipermail/pauldotcom/2010-March/004865.html -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 8:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Wifi monitoring All, Now that I have a Win7 Pro

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2011-03-01 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: I'm torturing myself this week with trying to build nTop and ntpd. Ewww. Why not just VM it? Cross-platform builds were more useful before VMs became easy. These days I just toss Linux on a VM under Windows. Why

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2011-03-01 Thread Kurt Buff
[mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 12:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wifi monitoring Interesting, but no port for FreeBSD - but Ubuntu is only a few keystrokes away. More limiting is that still seems to need someone to wander around with a laptop

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2011-03-01 Thread Michael B. Smith
: Re: Wifi monitoring On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: I'm torturing myself this week with trying to build nTop and ntpd. Ewww. Why not just VM it? Cross-platform builds were more useful before VMs became easy. These days I just toss Linux on a VM under

Re: Wifi monitoring

2011-03-01 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 09:31, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: You referring to the MinGW piece? Yes, exactly. I was surprised at how non-trivial it was. I'm not - I've read a few emails on the process, though I've never done it myself. Constructing the tool chain with

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2011-03-01 Thread Kurt Buff
: Wifi monitoring You referring to the MinGW piece? I was surprised at how non-trivial it was. Constructing the tool chain with everything required to rebuild, for example, RRDtool or NTop is a major piece of work. But I have all my tools on one computer now - Windows, PowerShell

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2011-03-01 Thread John Cook
Office (352) 244-1610 Cell (352) 215-6944 MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4 -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 1:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wifi monitoring Looks cool, I don't have a twitter or FB

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2011-03-01 Thread John Aldrich
:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wifi monitoring Looks cool, I don't have a twitter or FB account. On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 09:40, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: I used this on my traveling laptop, it did a pretty good job. http://www.makayama.com/easywifiradar.html John W

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2011-03-01 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Less overhead and disk storage than maintaining the VM. I *could* do this if forced, but for now I will soldier on. (My laptop only has 2.5GB RAM in it, though, and I don't want that shared with a VM) *ASB *(Find me online via About.Me http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) *Exploiting

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2011-03-01 Thread John Aldrich
System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wifi monitoring Looks cool, I don't have a twitter or FB account. On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 09:40, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: I used this on my traveling laptop, it did a pretty good job. http://www.makayama.com/easywifiradar.html John W. Cook System

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2011-03-01 Thread Don Ely
Airdefense is cheaper, but it is NOT that much cheaper... On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: Less overhead and disk storage than maintaining the VM. I *could* do this if forced, but for now I will soldier on. (My laptop only has 2.5GB RAM in it,

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2011-03-01 Thread Kurt Buff
-to-discover-rogue-access-points.html -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 1:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wifi monitoring Looks cool, I don't have a twitter or FB account. On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 09:40, John Cook

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2011-03-01 Thread Michael B. Smith
: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 3:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wifi monitoring Less overhead and disk storage than maintaining the VM. I *could* do this if forced, but for now I will soldier on. (My laptop only has 2.5GB RAM in it, though

Wifi monitoring

2011-02-28 Thread Kurt Buff
All, Now that I have a Win7 Pro laptop of my very own at work, I have put some utilities on it to monitor my wifi environment. I've started with: InSSIDer Xirrus WifiMonitor gadget Ekahau Heatmapper I didn't put on PassMark's WirelessMon (it's only a 30-day eval, didn't want to