X-UIDL: 329 X-Mozilla-Keys: Return-Path: os2-wireless_users-owner@2rosenthals.com Received: from mail.2rosenthals.com (localhost [127.0.0.1] ) by mail.2rosenthals.com (Hethmon Brothers Smtpd) ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 22:46:06 -0500 Received: from mail1.no-ip.com (goodyear.vitalwerks.com [64.156.198.155] ) by mail.2rosenthals.com (Hethmon Brothers Smtpd) ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 22:46:04 -0500 X-Envelope-To: Received: (qmail 15538 invoked by uid 89); 13 Aug 2003 02:45:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO MAIL03.toast.net) (206.244.185.10) by mail1.no-ip.com with SMTP; 13 Aug 2003 02:45:48 -0000 Received: from 2rosenthals.com (unverified [24.47.134.13]) by MAIL03.toast.net (Vircom SMTPRS 2.0.244) with ESMTP id for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 22:42:34 -0400 Message-ID: <3F39A666.2000404@2rosenthals.com> Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.4; MultiZilla v1.5.0.0) Gecko/20030622 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 22:46:05 EST5EDT4,M4.1,M10.5 X-OldDate: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 22:45:58 -0400 Sender: os2-wireless_users-owner X-Listname: os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com Reply-To: os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com From: Lewis G Rosenthal To: OS/2 Wireless Users Subject: [OS2Wireless] Building Kismet X-List-Unsubscribe: Send email to mailusers-request@2rosenthals.com X-List-Owner: mailusers-owner@2rosenthals.com Stan's mention of the NYT article (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/13/magazine/13HACKING.html?ex=1060833600&en=26f0543d105b6e5c&ei=5070) got me hunting down the link for Kismet (http://www.kismetwireless.net/), the sniffer utility used by the expert in the article. Kismet is apparently GPL, with the sources freely available. If I had better luck porting *nix code to OS/2, I'd have a go at this myself. Unfortunately, as I do it so rarely, I'll probably spend about three weeks beating it to death, not answering the phone, not doing billable work...you get the picture, after which, it probably still won't compile right. Anyone here interested in giving it a go? It sure would be neat to have this utility available to us, especially as it appears to work with a myriad of chipsets: "any prism2 based card (Linksys, D-Link, Rangelan, etc), Cisco Aironet cards, and Orinoco based cards." In short, any card capable of reporting raw packets (rfmon support). Hey, it even does "hidden SSID decloaking!" -- Lewis --------------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA Rosenthal & Rosenthal : Accountants / Network Consultants New York / Northern Virginia : www.2rosenthals.com Novell Users International : www.whytheylie.com OS/2's new face is eComStation : www.ecomstation.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- This OS/2 system (Apollo) uptime is 0 days 04:49 hours and 17 seconds =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to steward@2rosenthals.com with the command "unsubscribe os2-wireless_users" in the body (omit the quotes). For help with other commands, send a message to steward@2rosenthals.com with the command "help" in the body (omit the quotes). =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=