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Kismet: Wireless Network Detector, Sniffer, and Intrusion Detection

By John on December 9th, 2008

This cool little program will give you detailed and useful information about your wireless network and surrounding wireless networks. If I only knew about this in college!

Description from site:

Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. Kismet will work with any wireless card which supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode, and can sniff 802.11b, 802.11a, 802.11n, and 802.11g traffic (devices and drivers permitting).

Kismet identifies networks by passively collecting packets and detecting standard named networks, detecting (and given time, decloaking) hidden networks, and inferring the presence of non-beaconing networks via data traffic.

Check out the documentation and download here

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  • W4r3d
    December 12th, 2008 05:50

    Why pacing this here its not for windows this program should be LINUX !!!!

  • John
    December 16th, 2008 10:43

    I am pretty sure you can run it under certain windows installs.. Here is their documentation:

    2b. Windows Quick Start

    PLEASE read the full manual, but for the impatient, here is the BARE
    MINIMUM method to get Kismet running:

    * Download the Win32/Cygwin Installer created by CACE
    * Run the installer
    * Start Kismet
    * Pick your AirPcap or Kismet Drone sources
    * READ THE REST OF THIS README

    KISMET WILL ONLY WORK WITH THE CACE AIRPCAP DEVICE OR REMOTE KISMET DRONES IN WINDOWS. NO OTHER CARDS ARE SUPPORTED, PERIOD. DO NOT ASK IF KISMET WILL WORK WITH THEM ON WINDOWS, IT WILL NOT. THIS LIMITATION IS CAUSED BY THE LACK OF SNIFFER-MODE CAPABLE DRIVERS ON WINDOWS.


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