Wireless Access Point Scanning Software
Wireless access point scanning software can mean one or two Things. first it could mean that you are trying to find wireless access points on a LAN to find their IP address. This can be used when you start a new job and you want to get a quick handle on if any one has wireless access points on the LAN and to find their IP addresses. You can down load wireless access point scanning software from the wireless AP's manufacture or generic versions off the internet. As a wireless administrator you really want to have you wireless access points with static IP addresses so you can find them when you need them.
The second kind of wireless
access point scanning software is for discovering the actual wireless signal
radiating from the AP. Now this is often referred to as war driving software.
Examples of Wireless access
point cracked software are:
Netstumbler: Netstumbler will
scan for radio beacons from wireless access points and tell you their names,
MAC address, SSID and if they are locked or not. This type of software is very
easy to use. All this software will do is tell you the above information and
signal strength
Kismet and Airsnort - These
fall into the wireless "sniffers" category, which are used to collect
packets from wireless transmissions. If enough packets are colleted then a
hacker can eventually crack the encryption key. The collection of packets is a
very time consuming process, which could take days or even months. After all
the packets are collected then encryption cracking software will take over and
start the cracking process.
Wireless access point scanning
software falls into those two categories LAN and wireless discovery. If you
wish for your wireless network to be protected you can also use these same
programs as an IDS ( Intrusion Detection System). The most secure wireless
network is the one nobody knows about.
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