Wellenreiter - Wireless discovery / auditing

Project page: wellenreiter.sf.net
Authors: Max Moser, Steffen Kewitz, Martin J. Muench

About:

Wellenreiter is a wireless network discovery and auditing tool. Prism2, Lucent, and Cisco based cards are supported. It is one of the easiest to use linux wireless scanning tools available. No card configuration has to be done anymore. The whole look and feel is pretty self-explainatory. It can discover networks (BSS/IBSS), and detect ESSID broadcasting or non-broadcasting networks as well as their WEP capabilities and the manufacturer information automatically.

DHCP and ARP traffic are decoded and displayed to give you further information about the networks. A wireshark (formerly known as ethereal)/tcpdump-compatible dumpfile and an Application savefile will be automatically created. Using a supported GPS device and the gpsd you can track the location of the discovered networks.

Wellenreiter The project has started to move from perl to C++. Currently there are two "flavours" of Wellenreiter available. One is the perl/gtk based Version, with all the described functionality. The second one is the Wellenreiter II C++ based flavour. Wellenreiter II will run on Hanheld mobile devices (Zaurus/Ipaq/etc) within the Opie or X11 graphical environment.

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