Wireless Protocol Analyzer

I am currently in the need of a wireless protocol analyzer for my wireless
business. I have tried Commview at about $495, Linkferret at about $295 and
Airopeek SE at $995. Airopeek SE so far is the best of the 3 but the cost
is a tad bit more than I wanted to pay. Although if I buy one of the others
and then later want to
get Airopeek, I will have put out more money. I am looking for justification
to go ahead and spend the extra bucks up front. Any suggestions? Any I
havent tried that you know of? For $295 Linkferret is a great buy for just
the guts, but airopeek seems to save you time with all its options. I had
some problems with commview drivers so I am not sure if I will consider it.

Have you thought about using the Auditor distribution of Linux?

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 19:01:06 -0600, "Airhead"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I am currently in the need of a wireless protocol analyzer for my wireless
>business. I have tried Commview at about $495, Linkferret at about $295 and
>Airopeek SE at $995. Airopeek SE so far is the best of the 3 but the cost
>is a tad bit more than I wanted to pay. Although if I buy one of the others
>and then later want to
>get Airopeek, I will have put out more money. I am looking for justification
>to go ahead and spend the extra bucks up front. Any suggestions? Any I
>havent tried that you know of? For $295 Linkferret is a great buy for just
>the guts, but airopeek seems to save you time with all its options. I had
>some problems with commview drivers so I am not sure if I will consider it.

You may wanna read this article:
http://www.networkmagazine.com/article/NMG20030305S0001
(4 pages) on wireless sniffers. Also, for a list of tools, see:
http://www.air-stream.org/tiki-direc...e.php?parent=8
(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.
http://www.ethereal.com

See:
http://remote-exploit.org/?page=auditor
It'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:
http://www.knoppix-std.org


--
Jeff Liebermann (E-Mail Removed)
150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 AE6KS 831-336-2558

> >I am currently in the need of a wireless protocol analyzer for my
wireless
> >business. I have tried Commview at about $495, Linkferret at about
$295 and
> >Airopeek SE at $995. Airopeek SE so far is the best of the 3 but
the cost
> >is a tad bit more than I wanted to pay. Although if I buy one of
the others
> >and then later want to
> >get Airopeek, I will have put out more money. I am looking for
justification
> >to go ahead and spend the extra bucks up front. Any suggestions?
Any I
> >havent tried that you know of? For $295 Linkferret is a great buy
for just
> >the guts, but airopeek seems to save you time with all its options.
I had
> >some problems with commview drivers so I am not sure if I will
consider it.
>

"Jeff Liebermann" wrote in message
> You may wanna read this article:
> http://www.networkmagazine.com/article/NMG20030305S0001
> (4 pages) on wireless sniffers. Also, for a list of tools, see:
> http://www.air-stream.org/tiki-direc...e.php?parent=8
> (2 pages).

Thanks for the articles.

>
> 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.
> http://www.ethereal.com

I have ethereal installed on a windows machine, but like you say I
need
a promiscuous driver for it.
>
> See:
> http://remote-exploit.org/?page=auditor
> It'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.

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

>
> Knoppix-STD is another bootable Linux distribution crammed full of
> network and wireless tools:
> http://www.knoppix-std.org

This looks like a good one to try also.

Thanks Jeff
>
>
> --
> Jeff Liebermann (E-Mail Removed)
> 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
> Santa Cruz CA 95060 AE6KS 831-336-2558

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


airhead james