On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 17:56, David Brown wrote: > Assume we're talking about 802.11b (2.4 Ghz), wouldn't it be a reasonable > approach to use a radio direction finder set to 2.4 Ghz and simply walk-down > your intruder? > Except that the statement 'you can be assured that the intruder is within a 100 yards or so of the access point' is simply false. With a decent directional antenna and/or an amplifier in the right range, you can access an 802.11b network from a much larger distance. You can easily get a kilometer or more of range using antennas built from junk (old dish network dishes work great).
Direction finding is possible, assuming you are not in an area saturated by wifi traffic, which would make it much harder. > Dave Brown > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Donahue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 6:12 AM > To: 'David Laganière'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Wireless LAN question > > > We are talking about 2 completely unrelated technologies here. Unless there > is some part of the spec that I don't know about. Besides, you can be > assured that the intruder is within a 100 yards or so of the acess point. > > Tim Donahue > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Laganière [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 10:05 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Wireless LAN question > > > Hi! > > Say an intruder connect himself to my wireless LAN, is there a way with a > GPS and it's signal to know where he is physically? Where can I get more > documentation on that? > > Thanks. > > -- > David Laganière > Network/System Administrator > www: http://www.securinet.qc.ca/ > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jason Kohles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Engineer Red Hat Professional Consulting
