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NetStumbler v0.4 Released

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the wardriving-and-walking-and-stumbling dept.

mindless4210 writes "A new version of the popular wireless network discovery tool NetStumbler was released today. Updates include support for more wireless cards, ip address reporting, new scripting features, and several bug fixes. This is the first new release since late August of 2002, over a year and a half ago. A new version of the handheld version, MiniStumbler, is also available for download."

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  1. share with your nieghbor why not :) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    wouldnt it be great if we could share the bandwidth with our nieghbor? he's got a 512 kbit link I have got a 512kbit link wouldnt it be nice to share and have a 1 meg link between us sure sometimes we would both be using it but a lot of the time its sat doing little if anything.
    is it that different from modem doubling ?

    regard john

    1. Re:share with your nieghbor why not :) by Adriax · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Kinda complicated if you have to use wireless.
      You'd have to get a real router (not one of those cheap broadband NATs) with 3 ethernet ports, two wireless access points and a wireless bridge. Link one port in through ethernet, another through the access point and bridge, and set those to loadbalance the traffic to the 3rd port (with NAT, and DHCP if you want). Stick the second access point off that and have double speed broadband.

      Complicated and probably rather touchy, but if you really wanted to, you could. Though it'd be cheaper to just use one broadband account and pay for the combine bandwidth, and share that out.

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  2. New chipsets supported by chrispl · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Ah now my cisco wifi card is finally more supported than before. It worked pretty good on the old version but netstumbler would often just shut down instantly when more than one access point were available at the same time. This new version seems to work MUCH better.

    The cisco cards work great under linux and its nice to see this great app become even more useful even if it is for windows. On that topic has anyone ported NS or another active wifi scanner to linux?

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  3. my regular client software can do most of this by gelfling · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My D-link 530DWL client software on XP as well as the XP client manager for the Intel Pro wireless built into my Thinkpad can find all the LANs near my house and they will allow me to logon if they are not encrypted. It reports the LAN name and channel.

  4. No G? by wpiman · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well- I guess I know which one I should install. My security for wifi- shut the WAP off when not home. X10 actually works well for this. Simply have the alarm system turn off the wap if no one is home.

  5. Palm by Pirogoeth · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is there a tool like this available for Palm-based PDAs with wireless cards?

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  6. Is Netstumbler detectable? by bender647 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I recall reading in the Kismet documentation (my choice for my Zaurus) that Netstumbler use could be detected by NIDS tools... I wonder if this is still true.

  7. Wow. I actually read this using the neighbor's AP by fliplap · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm on my neighbors AP right now.

    Btw, SSID: Bartell_LTD
    WEP is actually a lot more effective than people on slashdot will tell you.

  8. Re:Kismet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    anyone knows the difference between using kismet to sniff packets and using ethereal? When using kismet my wireless card can't download/upload; when using ethereal I can sniff and download/upload. My suspicions is that using ethereal limits you to your subnet, the channel you're on, and the essid you're associated to, but I don't know for sure.

  9. complete clueless question by EngMedic · · Score: 3, Interesting

    i'm about to ask a question that demonstrates my cluelessness, so please bear with me.
    How does one determine what chipset is in use in a given card? I have the intel pro wireless (centrino default) integrated wifi card in my laptop, but i don't know what chipset it uses... and more importantly, i don't know where to look. Help, anybody?

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  10. side sotry: netstumbler meets tech support person. by r.future · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've been working as a tech for belkin for awhile now (I know I should hate my self for that but it pays the bills) and a while ago a guy called saying that he had set up his router to...
    1. NOT broadcast SSID and,
    2. use a 128 bit wep key


    But he was pissed off because his network was still "showing up as an available network!" After talking to the guy for a long time I figured out that he was using netstumbler (V3) and that SSID was showing up there, but no place other than that.

    Because every one that I work with uses netstumbler, and war drives I asked them if there was any way to make iso stumberl coul dnot see the WAP. When I told this to the guy on my phone he freaked out hard core, and told us that we needed to take some sort of leagle action aginst the guy who invented netstumbler.

    Anyway, my point is that WiFi networks + Americans who are afarid of everything + Netstumbler = one pissed off fear filled sue happy american.

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  11. K vs N by MrEcho.net · · Score: 4, Interesting

    yes kismet is great and alot better then netstumbler.
    but you have to think about getting your damm wifi card to even work in *nix.
    Ive spent weeks trying to get my 2 working in linux, no luck yet.

    NetStumbler is the only real way to go in Winblows.
    (yes im a linux guy, made the switch 2 months ago)

  12. Re:minor risk assessment by drewzhrodague · · Score: 2, Interesting

    wardrivers say , and the FBI also says there aren't any known issues. Of course, I'm biased, since I not only wardrive, but operate a location based wi-fi site. Be ready for The World Wide Wardrive coming-up in June!

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  13. Re:MAC Address Filter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    "anyone knowledgeable enough to be using a linux WiFi tool is smart enough to crack WEP."

    . . . and to spoof a MAC address and associate w/ your AP. You have *no* security at all.

  14. Re:Already Complaining about Options... by Exocet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Funny, but in my friend's case, quite true. The Personal Telco Project in Portland, OR runs several hundred nodes in the metro area. Perhaps 20-25 are high-profile nodes, in businesses.

    However, many are in residential neighborhoods. My friend couldn't get DSL at his house, but four block away his PTP-friendly neighbor already had it. With the aid of a Linksys WET-11 and WAP-11 plus a bit of a boost to the WET-11's antenna (I think) via a half-moon reflector, he manages to get access to the internet - FOUR blocks away. 802.11b + good equipment = distance, baby.

    Running a similar node in a secure (!) fashion is not necessarily that difficult. You can check out my notes on the node-on-a-laptop I did here: http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/Node172

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