[GRLUG] Wireless scanning scripts

[Michael Mol]

I tried messing with Kismet back when I first tried to figure out
wireless networking.  I was never able to get wireless completely
working while I was running Debian.  I now know the details behind
why, though.

The story behind these scripts?  I chatted with a couple of my
friends, and they told me they wanted to go wardriving.  I was already
on my way to Florida at the time (I believe I was in Knoxville,
TN...).  I didn't think much of it until boredom struck the next day.
So I wrote these.

Frankly, though, writing my own scanning and analysis scripts was a
lot more fun and informative.  Any script kiddie can have kismet or
netstumbler do their scanning for them, to which they can adapt
themselves.  If I can, I like to write my own tools, which I can adapt
to my needs. (Cue discussion on nature of open source.)

As for network names with = in them, there should be no problem.  Step
1b filters out "--", which is a separator grep drops into its output
when returning multiple lines.  The "=" separators sprinkled into
wlwatch.txt by wirelesswatch.sh aren't affected, and happen to not
interfere with the scripts.  They were supposed to make the data more
easily machine-readable, but really only serve to make it
human-readable.

On 12/11/06, Olding, Jim <JOlding at gts.gaineycorp.com> wrote:
> Have you looked into trying kismet at all?  You can always log GPS to a
> separate file, and disable the passive scanning feature.  It can output
> to CSV and XML also.  It'd probably be more effective than looping over
> iwlist constantly.  Also, what happens if someone sets their SSID to =
> or === (I can't remember if this is allowed)?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: grlug-bounces at grlug.org [mailto:grlug-bounces at grlug.org] On Behalf
> Of Michael Mol
> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 11:49 AM
> To: grlug at grlug.org
> Subject: [GRLUG] Wireless scanning scripts
>
> wirelesswatch.sh ... (All writes to files are appendations, not
> overwrites.  Also, anything written to a file is also written to the
> screen.)
> 1. Grabs a timestamp and appends it to a file (date) 2. Filters 10 gpsd
> packets for GLL packets (gpspipe) 2a. Appends those to wlgps.txt, and
> prints the data to the screen (tee) 3. Creates a separator (echo) 3a.
> Appends the separator to wlwatch.txt, and prints it to the screen (tee)
> 4. Scans ath0 for wireless networks (iwlist) 4a Appends the results to
> wlwatch.txt, and prints them to the screen (tee) 5. Creates a separator
> (echo) 5a. Appends the separator to wlwatch.txt, and prints it to the
> screen (tee) 6. Scans eth2 for wireless networks (iwlist) 6a. Appends
> the results to wlwatch.txt, and prints them to the screen (tee) 7.
> Creates a third, longer separator (echo) 7a. Appends the separator to
> wlwatch.txt, and prints it to the screen (tee) 8. Runs wlcount.sh
>
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