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Microsoft Virtually Duplicates Your Wireless Card

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the engineers-having-fun dept.

akhomerun writes "Microsoft has released version 1.0 of its experimental new VirtualWiFi Software. The free software enables Windows users to use a single wireless card to connect to multiple wireless networks simultaneously. The current build is a very primitive release, with no support for WEP or WPA encryption."

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  1. Easier Wifi Man in the middle attacks? by random_culchie · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You need two Wifi cards to do some man in the middle attacks..

    Will this make it easier ;)

  2. Network Bridge? by AnimeEd · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Does this mean we can connect to an AP and then connect using ad-hoc using the same card to another computer? This would result in a relay

  3. Original Page... by perlionex · · Score: 5, Informative

    ... found using Google, at: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/ranveer/multinet/ software.htm And the author's page, which follows quite naturally: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/ranveer/ ...which, if you look at it, will explain the origins of this "Microsoft" project :) His papers on "MultiNet" date back to June 2003.

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  4. Association and authentication delays by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The comments on the website indicate that the code buffers traffic meant for another AP between switching networks. This of course is hindered by the time it takes to complete the 802.11 authentication and association exchange as indicated with the suggested timer values for the supported wireless cards.

    Intel Centrino cards are well-known in the industry as being particularly aggressive at associating and authentication to an access point after being deauthenticated, thereby shortening the time needed to switch between different networks. It's unfortunately Centrino cards aren't on the supported list yet, they would make for an interesting evaluation target to use this kind of technology in a sort of mesh wireless network.

  5. Re:What the crap? by Jugalator · · Score: 5, Informative

    I see it's from their research division... They sometimes seem uncorrupted by their marketing machine. ;-) They have other projects going on too, like ConferenceXP (yes indeed, source here too), and Netscan. Kind of interesting projects actually.

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  6. Re:What the crap? by mattjb0010 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This just doesn't look like typical Microsof

    A primitive release with security to be added later? Sure sounds like Microsoft to me.

  7. Thanks by thedarkone64 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thanks, Microsoft (geez I still feel wierd saying that....)

    Why should you feel weird saying that? I say it all the time. Oh wait, I normally say it sarcastically.

  8. Re:Linux equivalent by pixr99 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yep, at the tender age of five, Linus Torvalds conceived a method by which to clone network interfaces in the, as of yet, nonexistent Linux kernel.