Re: rogue access point detection

gpsmap with Kismet does a fair amount of this automatically to try to
isolate the most likely center of a cluster of sample points.

It's still some guesswork, but it's better than a pure average.

-m

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 10:05:28AM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> Yes, that is correct, Multi-path will defiantly fool you unless you use 
> something like what he mentioned, basically collect observations from 
> several directions, and then perform post processing, delete outliers, 
> averaging, ...etc.
> 
> 
> Mohamed Nezami,
> Raytheon, Florida, USA
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> "Brian  Riley (maillist)" <[email protected]>
> Sent by: [email protected]
> 09/15/2004 11:59 PM
> 
>  
>         To:     Larry Mateo <[email protected]>, BAWUG <[email protected]>
>         cc: 
>         Subject:        Re: [BAWUG] rogue access point detection
> 
> 
> 
> Remember the only thing a "GPS enabled" sniffer/stumbler program does is 
> to 
> make note of the GPS coordinates of your location at the moment of the 
> greatest signal strength it has recorded for that access point. That is 
> all 
> it does. You could be hundreds of feet from the site. There is nothing easy 
> about it!
> 
> Your best bet is multiple passes from different directions until you have 
> it 
> Bracketed, then average the GPS coordinates. Even then there are so many 
> variables you will still be down to some serious snooping/educated 
> guessing!
> 
> Cheers ... BBR
> 
> On 9/7/04 7:24 PM, "Larry Mateo" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello, Is there a product where it is GPS-enabled so that rogue AP's can be 
> easily located?    I am currently using Sniffer Technologies Netasyst WLX 
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