RE: Wireless card recommendation

Alan B. Clegg wrote:
> Unless the network is lying to me again, Mike Joyce said: 
> > I really like the Lucent's, I have it, I love it.
> > I am pretty sure it is supported by dstumbler, only the 
> prisms support
> > that prismdump and like wepcrack stuff though I think.
> 
> If you use Lucent cards with dstumbler, you are missing all 
> the APs that
> don't broadcast their SSIDs.  If you are _really_ stumbling for any 
> reason more than fun, you don't want to use one.
> 
> Monitor mode or waste of time... take your choice.

Not to mention that your activities could be detected by wireless
intrusion detection systems when you use active probing to scan for
networks (e.g. the NetStumbler tactic).  Using RF Monitor mode makes you
nearly undetectable (nearly).

-Joshua Wright
Team Leader, Networks and Systems
Johnson & Wales University
[email protected] 

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