Sorry.... I thought that I noticed a basestation in infastructure mode. It was actually in ad-hoc mode, so maybe it is just someone else's laptop and not a basestation.
Charles On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Charles McLaughlin wrote: > Ok... I know what your thinking. No, I'm not trying to crack someone's > WLAN. I just moved and am just curious if any WLANs are near by. At my > old apartment complex, I was able to use my neighbor's DSL connection from > his wireless basestation. He didn't even enable WEP, so I couldn't help > but use his signal -- my laptop automatically recieved an IP address from > his basestation! > > Now... I've moved and am just curious what signals are out there. I'm > using Kismet to sniff wireless packets. I guess this is legal because I > haven't actually "circumvented" any encrypted packets. ;-) > > Using Kismet, I can see an infastructure type signal, which I assume is > a neighbor's WLAN basestation. I've let Kismet run for two days > and have sniffed almost 80,000 packets, but none of them have been encrypted. > When I look at the WLAN using a Winbloze box, I'm asked for a WEP key. > > My conclusion is that my neighbor's basestation is using WEP, but > s/he hasn't booted any wireless clients in the past two days. Maybe that > is why none of the packets are encrypted? > > Maybe I should mention that I don't know much about networking "theory" -- > I'm more of a hands-on type of guy, so I hope this post makes sense. > > > Thanks for any insight, > Charles > > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
