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Section: Unix

Added: Sat, Jan 5th 2002 02:46 UTC (6 years, 11 months ago)

Updated: Fri, May 30th 2008 08:52 UTC (6 months, 6 days ago)

About:
Kismet is an 802.11 layer 2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. It will work with any wireless card which supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode, and can sniff 802.11b, 802.11a, 802.11g, and 802.11n traffic (device drivers permitting). It identifies networks by passively collecting packets and detecting standard named networks, detecting (and given time, decloaking) hidden networks, and inferring the presence of non-beaconing networks via data traffic.

Author:
Mike Kershaw [contact developer]

Homepage:
http://www.kismetwireless.net/
Tar/GZ:
http://www.kismetwireless.net/code/kismet-2008-05-R1.tar.gz
Changelog:
http://www.kismetwireless.net/CHANGELOG

Trove categories: [change]
[Development Status] 5 - Production/Stable
[Environment] Console (Text Based) :: Curses, Handheld :: PDA, MacOS X
[Intended Audience] System Administrators
[License] OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System] MacOS X, POSIX :: BSD :: FreeBSD, POSIX :: BSD :: OpenBSD, POSIX :: Linux
[Topic] Scientific/Engineering :: Geographical, Security, System :: Monitoring, System :: Networking, System :: Networking :: Monitoring

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

Project admins: [change]
» Mike Kershaw (Owner)

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Branches

Branch Version Last release License URLs

Default 2008-05-R1 30-May-2008 GNU General Public License (GPL)

ARM-pcap
For handhelds running Familiar Linux, with pcap support. 2.8.1 27-Jan-2003 GNU General Public License (GPL)

ARM-Zaurus
For Zaurus handhelds. 2.8.1 27-Jan-2003 GNU General Public License (GPL)

Development 2.9 25-Dec-2002 GNU General Public License (GPL)

Articles referencing this project

Debian: New kismet packages fix arbitrary code execution
by Patrick Lenz , in Security
Tue, Aug 30th 2005 05:29

Comments

[»] kismet zaurus
by Peter Flynn - Dec 10th 2002 16:03:22

The cfg file appears to be missing from the 2.6.2
distro (executing the kismet binary gives an error
that the network type has not been set, and on
inspection there was no cfg file to start with).

Is this deliberate, and if so, is there a location where working sample cfg files can be obtained
to get started?

/P

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