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kismet
— Wireless
sniffing and monitoring
kismet [server-options]
[--
] [client-options]
kismet_server [-nqs
]
[-t
title]
[-f
config-file]
[-c
capture-source]
[-C
enable-capture-sources]
[-l
log-types]
[-d
dump-type]
[-m
max-packets-per-file]
[-g
gpshost:port]
[-p
listen-port]
[-a
allowed-hosts]
[-N
server-name]
kismet_client [-qr
]
[-f
config-file]
[-s
serverhost:port]
[-g
gui-type]
[-c
display-columns]
Kismet
is an 802.11 layer2 wireless
network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. Kismet will work
with any wireless card which supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode, and can
sniff 802.11b, 802.11a, and 802.11g traffic.
kismet
identifies networks by passively
collecting packets and detecting standard named networks, detecting (and
given time, decloaking) hidden networks, and inferring the presence of
nonbeaconing networks via data traffic.
kismet
supports logging to the wtapfile packet format
(readable by tcpdump and ethereal) and saves detected network information as
plaintext, CSV, and XML. kismet
is capable of using
any GPS supported by gpsd
and logs and plots network
data.
kismet
is divided into three basic
programs, kismet_server
kismet_client
and gpsmap
kismet
handles automatically starting
kismet_server
and
kismet_client.
kismet
is installed as suid-root by default. It will
drop privs to the user specified in kismet.conf
immediately after binding and configuring the capture source.
kismet_server
captures, dissects, and logs
packets and GPS data. It is capable of running in `headless' mode with no
display. Multiple clients (on multiple computers) can be connected to a
single server.
-I
-x
-X
-t
-n
-f
-c
-C
-l
-m
-q
-g
-p
-a
-s
-N
-v
-h
kismet_client
is a ncurses and panels
interface which connects to the server and displays detected networks,
statistics, network details, etc.
-f
-u
-q
-s
-r
-g
-c
-v
-h
gpsmap
reads GPS and Network XML datafiles
and plots networks on downloaded maps or user-supplied images (such as
satellite photos).
kismet_drone(1), gpsmap(1), kismet.conf(5), kismet_ui.conf(5), kismet_drone.conf(5)
April 3, 2004 | Kismet |