Well, you could use any standard RF equipment that can show signal strength in the 2.4ghz band... Alternatively, you could get a noise generator (probably several) in the 2.4ghz band, and effectively trash all 802.11b stuff, as well as cordless phones and some other devices.
Or... You could get a prism chipset based wireless card, and do the whole war-walking gig. We have "secure" conference rooms with such interference devices, to prevent cell phones and any outside connectivity, however the FCC can be a problem with regards to those, so if you are in U.S. might want to look at relevant laws. - Jo Ann ----- Original Message ----- From: "sim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 2:57 PM Subject: Detecting WAP's > Hello, > I spent the better part of my morning today tracking down a WAP within > my building. We basically stumbled onto the signal by blind luck > (testing a WAP enabled laptop) and I proceeded to walk around on a few > floors searching cubicles until I found it sitting inside someone's > cabinet. > > My current network policy is no wireless devices. > > My question is how does one proactively monitor for a WAP in a standard > routed/switched environment. Is there any intelligent way to accomplish > this? I would be interested in ideas/solutions for LAN's and WAN's. Is > there something I can look for within each packet or perhaps specific > types of traffic (broadcast?) create by the WAP? > > Unfortunately I am not up on 802.11 (yet) and this recent incident has > me concerned given anyone within range had free access to my network. > > Any comments, links, documents, or criticisms are welcome. Please > respond to the group. > CM
