Wireless Protocol Analyzer

Have you thought about using the Auditor distribution of Linux?

You may wanna read this article:

pages) on wireless sniffers. Also, for a list of tools, see: (2 pages).

Have you looked at Linux sniffers? The problem with Windoze sniffers is that the standard drivers do not offer the required promiscuous mode necessary for sniffing. There are ways of finding such drivers, but I don't wanna go there now. Anyway, the Linux drivers all have promiscuous mode and therefore the common sniffer and protocol analyzers like Ethereal will work.

See: 's a rather large download, but worth it. You create a bootable CDROM, with all the necessary wireless tools and drivers included. That's what I use. Save you money and buy a cheapo laptop to run it.

Knoppix-STD is another bootable Linux distribution crammed full of network and wireless tools:

justification

consider it.

Thanks for the articles.

sniffers

drivers,

I have ethereal installed on a windows machine, but like you say I need a promiscuous driver for it.

Gee, theres a lot of stuff there. Im downloading and going to try it out. Like you said rather large.

This looks like a good one to try also.

Thanks Jeff

Jeff, thanks for the auditor turn on.....it is awesome

airhead james