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Products => Test Equipment => Topic started by: davorin on May 28, 2015, 02:25:29 pm

Title: Fast WiFi SSID scanner
Post by: davorin on May 28, 2015, 02:25:29 pm

Does anyone know of a small device or a linux application which can scan and update a list of active WiFi SSIDs fast to be able to detect if a certain SSID was only visible for a few seconds?

Something which would help in a IoT project involving WLAN on a small linux device...

Title: Re: Fast WiFi SSID scanner
Post by: Muxr on May 28, 2015, 02:46:28 pm

Quote from: davorin on May 28, 2015, 02:25:29 pm

Does anyone know of a small device or a linux application which can scan and update a list of active WiFi SSIDs fast to be able to detect if a certain SSID was only visible for a few seconds?

Something which would help in a IoT project involving WLAN on a small linux device...

http://www.security.securethelock.com/find-hidden-ssids-using-backtrackkali-linux/ (http://www.security.securethelock.com/find-hidden-ssids-using-backtrackkali-linux/)  You could possibly run the tools on a Rasspberry Pi.

Title: Re: Fast WiFi SSID scanner
Post by: miguelvp on May 28, 2015, 06:15:53 pm

Android WiFi Analyzer perhaps?

Title: Re: Fast WiFi SSID scanner
Post by: ConKbot on May 28, 2015, 06:27:59 pm

A wifi adapter with promiscuous mode (I believe thats what its called? Whatever ones are popular for wifi sniffing) and wireshark or traffic logger of choice, configured to only log beacon packets?

Title: Re: Fast WiFi SSID scanner
Post by: davorin on May 28, 2015, 06:29:50 pm

No..I don't like Android (o;

But the airmon-ng seems to be interesting....have to grab out a RPi tomorrow and have a test run...Ubuntu doesn't know this package...

My preferred setup would a AJAX driven web page where appearance/disappearance is time logged....down to seconds if possible with the airmon-ng....

Title: Re: Fast WiFi SSID scanner
Post by: dom0 on May 28, 2015, 06:38:16 pm

airmon-ng should be in aircrack-ng (probably community repo).