Blocking Rogue Ad-hoc networks

Hellow

Im doing a school project about blocking Rogue Ad-hoc networks
This can be used during exams, when students are not allow to transfer
files to eachother.

I found some information on google, but nothing specific how to do it.

I cannot buy any hardware, it has to be done with the available
resources.

Any websites or ebooks that could help, are greatly appriciated.

Sorry for my bad english.

Thx in advance

John S

SiX wrote:

> Hellow
>
> Im doing a school project about blocking Rogue Ad-hoc networks
> This can be used during exams, when students are not allow to transfer
> files to eachother.
>
> I found some information on google, but nothing specific how to do it.
>
> I cannot buy any hardware, it has to be done with the available
> resources.
>
> Any websites or ebooks that could help, are greatly appriciated.
>
> Sorry for my bad english.
>
> Thx in advance
>
> John S

The point of a school project is to teach you how to think for yourself,
not how to copy someone else's solution. Besides, with the few companies
that are in this field charging multiple thouusands of dollars for their
solutions, you're not likely to find detailed "how to do it" instructions
publicly available.

The way to attack problems like this is to break it into smaller parts.

For example, what do you suppose the first step might be in "blocking" any
sort of wireless communication? It seems to me that the first step must
be discovering that there is any such communication going on in the first
place. So, the first issue is: how do you detect the presence of a
wireless network? Ever hear of the term "war driving"? What are your
"available resources"?

Now that you've detected a wireless network, now what? Is it authorized
or unauthorized? How do you know? What information do you know about the
network you've detected? How could you use this information to disrupt
the communication link? In order to answer this question, you must know
how wireless network communication works, both physically -- it uses radio
transmitters and receivers -- and logically -- it uses the IEEE 802.11
protocol.

How might you "block" radio communications? Is that really a good idea?
What effect might this have on other, legitimate communications? In any
case, can you do anything effective with your "available resources"?

How does a wireless LAN operate? What are control frames? See if this
gives you any ideas
http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials...le.php/1447501

Good luck.

Hi

Peter is Right, but a little steering is educational as well.

This is an interesting issue, AD-Hoc setting is not depending on any other
Wireless in a given network environment.

Whoever uses Ad-Hoc for Rouge purposes, like the one that you mentioned,
does not use or need the local Network system, and he is not connected to
it.

Which means that the Environment has to be scanned for the presence of all
Wireless WIFI Signals.

The scanner has to have the capacity to alert the authority that a Rouge
signal is presence, and its precise location, so that some one can go there
and physically catch the culprit.

How Should I do it? That is your Job!

Jack (MVP-Networking).





"Peter Adler" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> SiX wrote:
>
>> Hellow
>>
>> Im doing a school project about blocking Rogue Ad-hoc networks
>> This can be used during exams, when students are not allow to transfer
>> files to eachother.
>>
>> I found some information on google, but nothing specific how to do it.
>>
>> I cannot buy any hardware, it has to be done with the available
>> resources.
>>
>> Any websites or ebooks that could help, are greatly appriciated.
>>
>> Sorry for my bad english.
>>
>> Thx in advance
>>
>> John S
>
> The point of a school project is to teach you how to think for yourself,
> not how to copy someone else's solution. Besides, with the few companies
> that are in this field charging multiple thouusands of dollars for their
> solutions, you're not likely to find detailed "how to do it" instructions
> publicly available.
>
> The way to attack problems like this is to break it into smaller parts.
>
> For example, what do you suppose the first step might be in "blocking" any
> sort of wireless communication? It seems to me that the first step must
> be discovering that there is any such communication going on in the first
> place. So, the first issue is: how do you detect the presence of a
> wireless network? Ever hear of the term "war driving"? What are your
> "available resources"?
>
> Now that you've detected a wireless network, now what? Is it authorized
> or unauthorized? How do you know? What information do you know about the
> network you've detected? How could you use this information to disrupt
> the communication link? In order to answer this question, you must know
> how wireless network communication works, both physically -- it uses radio
> transmitters and receivers -- and logically -- it uses the IEEE 802.11
> protocol.
>
> How might you "block" radio communications? Is that really a good idea?
> What effect might this have on other, legitimate communications? In any
> case, can you do anything effective with your "available resources"?
>
> How does a wireless LAN operate? What are control frames? See if this
> gives you any ideas
> http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials...le.php/1447501
>
> Good luck.
>