Application for testing wireless security

[SBird]

I was wondering what application people would suggest for testing wireless security, and I was also curious if the built in airport in modern mbp's will work with them.

 

[cuestakid]

can you explain a little better? What is it exactly that you want to test?

 

[brian doherty]

Kismac works wonders at sniffing and capturing packets. However, you can't passively capture the packets with the built in wifi chips. I happened to have a few USB wifi sticks lying around and one of the old Belkin ones was a supported chipset.

I capture with Kismac using the belkin usb stick, and have aircrack running to crack the wep key. It works well.

 

[upinflames900]

Kismac works wonders at sniffing and capturing packets. However, you can't passively capture the packets with the built in wifi chips. I happened to have a few USB wifi sticks lying around and one of the old Belkin ones was a supported chipset.

I capture with Kismac using the belkin usb stick, and have aircrack running to crack the wep key. It works well.

I think you can capture them with the built in wifi, but it installs a new driver for the chip so that if you are going to be using the internet you will have to restart for the original apple driver to be reinstated.