Have you tried NetStumbler.com? Mark
Charles McLaughlin wrote:
Sorry.... I thought that I noticed a basestation in infastructure mode. It was actually in ad-hoc mode, so maybe it is just someone else's laptop and not a basestation.
Charles
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Charles McLaughlin wrote:
Ok... I know what your thinking. No, I'm not trying to crack someone's WLAN. I just moved and am just curious if any WLANs are near by. At my old apartment complex, I was able to use my neighbor's DSL connection from his wireless basestation. He didn't even enable WEP, so I couldn't help but use his signal -- my laptop automatically recieved an IP address from his basestation!
Now... I've moved and am just curious what signals are out there. I'm using Kismet to sniff wireless packets. I guess this is legal because I haven't actually "circumvented" any encrypted packets. ;-)
Using Kismet, I can see an infastructure type signal, which I assume is a neighbor's WLAN basestation. I've let Kismet run for two days and have sniffed almost 80,000 packets, but none of them have been encrypted. When I look at the WLAN using a Winbloze box, I'm asked for a WEP key.
My conclusion is that my neighbor's basestation is using WEP, but s/he hasn't booted any wireless clients in the past two days. Maybe that is why none of the packets are encrypted?
Maybe I should mention that I don't know much about networking "theory" -- I'm more of a hands-on type of guy, so I hope this post makes sense.
Thanks for any insight, Charles
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