Kismet
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 (with appropriate hardware) can sniff 802.11b, 802.11a, 802.11g, and 802.11n traffic.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
Features
- Terminal-based
- WiFi Signal Measurement
Tags
- network-detection
- Packet Sniffer
- 802-11x
- wireless-fidelity
- network-detector
- intrusion-detection-system
- Sniffer
- wireless-network-detector
- network-detectors
Kismet News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
gwrvan-barre added Kismet as alternative to Wi-Fi Info- umitseyhan updated Kismet
Kismet information
Developed by
Mike Kershaw Licensing
Open Source and Free product.Written in
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What is Kismet?
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 (with appropriate hardware) can sniff 802.11b, 802.11a, 802.11g, and 802.11n traffic. Kismet also supports plugins which allow sniffing other media such as DECT.
Kismet identifies networks by passively collecting packets and detecting standard named networks, detecting (and given time, decloaking) hidden networks, and infering the presence of nonbeaconing networks via data traffic.