[TriLUG] Sanctioned warchalking - Linux wireless sniffer recommendations?

[Mike Shaw]

Hi Everyone,

My work is wanting me to come up with some
recommendations for doing wireless sniffing at our
site and I wanted to come up with viable Linux option
if possible.  Any thoughts on this?  We are looking at
doing regular scans so anything bigger than a PDA just
won't be an option. 

I know that this can be done with an stock Ipaq(or
other PDA) and Ministumbler or possibly
Airsnort(although it looks like it has some problems
on the Windoze side), but again I would like to make
the Linux option look good and of course price does
matter.

I would also be interested in any opinions on how
effective this has been at your site.  My management
is mainly wanting to make sure the average Joe
Engineer doesn't drop an access point on the network. 
We are looking at other detection methods
also(checking at the router, possible RF scanning),
this is just going to be one tier in a layered
approach to minimize a possible wireless network
breach.

Regards,

Mike

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