RE: Tools for Detecting Wireless APs - from the wire side.

From: Soren Macbeth (smacbeth@atc-nycorp.com)
Date: Mon Jun 10 2002 - 10:53:07 EDT


I think your best bet would be to check out a list of MAC address for APs
(several exist, however I don't have the urls on hand), then sweep the LAN
and look for matching MACs. From there you could port scan to limit the
possibles.

Soren Macbeth
Network/Security Administrator
ATC-NY

-----Original Message-----
From: Isherwood Jeff C Contr AFRL/IFOSS [mailto:Jeffrey.Isherwood@rl.af.mil]

Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 2:22 PM
To: 'Pen-Test'
Subject: Tools for Detecting Wireless APs - from the wire side.

I'm doing some research for a paper on wireless security, and I've been
trying to find a decent way for an administrator to probe his network for
APs that might be attached.

There seems to be very little out there for this sort of thing.

NMAP can recognize a fingerprint of some APs, but not all...

ISS can sweep a wire, and report back on any that have SNMP enabled...

APTOOLS claims to be capable, but isn't that easy to use or figure out (for
me so far)

Is there anything else out there?

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