On Wednesday 02 January 2002 04:57 pm, sim wrote:
> Hello,
> I spent the better part of my morning today tracking down a WAP within
> my building. We basically stumbled onto the signal by blind luck
> (testing a WAP enabled laptop) and I proceeded to walk around on a few
> floors searching cubicles until I found it sitting inside someone's
> cabinet.
>
> My current network policy is no wireless devices.
>
> My question is how does one proactively monitor for a WAP in a standard
> routed/switched environment. Is there any intelligent way to accomplish
> this? I would be interested in ideas/solutions for LAN's and WAN's. Is
> there something I can look for within each packet or perhaps specific
> types of traffic (broadcast?) create by the WAP?
>
> Unfortunately I am not up on 802.11 (yet) and this recent incident has
> me concerned given anyone within range had free access to my network.
>
> Any comments, links, documents, or criticisms are welcome. Please
> respond to the group.
> CM
http://www.netstumbler.com/ has some software you can use to help detect
wireless networks in your building, however it only works with some of the
wireless cards.
