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Are there anyways or tools to test whether the wireless lan is secured?

Emyeu wrote:

> Are there anyways or tools to test whether the wireless lan is
> secured?

Take a laptop outside your house and use Net Stumbler (Windows) or
Kismet (*nixes) and see if you can get into your network.

Malke
--
MS MVP - Windows Shell/User
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"

May i know what are "Net Stumbler" and "Kismet (*nixes)"???


"Malke" <> wrote in message
news:O%...
> Emyeu wrote:
>
> > Are there anyways or tools to test whether the wireless lan is
> > secured?
>
> Take a laptop outside your house and use Net Stumbler (Windows) or
> Kismet (*nixes) and see if you can get into your network.
>
> Malke
> --
> MS MVP - Windows Shell/User
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"

NetStumbler is a Windows utility that allows you to detect wireless access
points and clients, and then more:

http://www.netstumbler.com/downloads/

Kismet is a wireless network detector and sniffer. It also has some NIDS
capability and plugs into Snort NIDS. Kismet runs on Linux:

http://www.kismetwireless.net/

I'm also using Wellenreiter on a PDA, very good for wireless auditing but a
bit dated:

http://www.wellenreiter.net/


--
Svyatoslav Pidgorny, MVP, MCSE
-= F1 is the key =-

"Emyeu" <> wrote in message
news:...
> May i know what are "Net Stumbler" and "Kismet (*nixes)"???
>
>
> "Malke" <> wrote in message
> news:O%...
> > Emyeu wrote:
> >
> > > Are there anyways or tools to test whether the wireless lan is
> > > secured?
> >
> > Take a laptop outside your house and use Net Stumbler (Windows) or
> > Kismet (*nixes) and see if you can get into your network.
> >
> > Malke
> > --
> > MS MVP - Windows Shell/User
> > Elephant Boy Computers
> > www.elephantboycomputers.com
> > "Don't Panic!"
>
>