Ramiro“s IEEE 802.11b links

TODO

• PPPOE for wireless LANs.

Sites

• IEEE“s 802.x stds online
• Netstumbler
• Intrusion.org
• 802.11 topic (w/list of articles) @ O“Reilly Net.
• Practically Networked.
• Site of Italian guy with Intersil firmware for activating AP mode in cards an other info.
• Portland State University Secure Mobile Networking Project.
• FlyingLinux Project.
• A thread with many links abous range boosting @ half-empty.org.
• Nokia Rooftop, Nokia's site for their Rooftop technology.
• Rooftops @ MIT, A ton of links about this stuff, including several community-based wireless networks already in operation.
• LARIAT: Brett Glass's very innovative ISP in Laramie, Wyoming.
• ADC Products & Services. Pairgain's (now ADC's) Megabit DSL modem site.

Articles

• Wild Packets“ AiroPeek review @ Intrusion.org
  • Wireless LAN users - encrypt your data
• Encryption snake oil FAQ.
• To hell with proprietary encryption algorithms.
• Homebrew DSL
  • Article by R. Cringely
  • ...another one...
  • ...and another one.
  • article #1 @ ISP Planet.
  • article #2 @ ISP Planet.
  • A good story about how one man built his own SDSL connection despite the phone company.
• Jean Tourrilhes“ personal page.
  • Linux Wireless LAN HOWTO.
  • Wireless tools.
• General info pages @ Practically Networked.
• 802.11 Performance & interference tests article @ O“Reilly Net.
• White paper about secure wireless gateway using OpenBSD @ NASA.
• MS paper about 802.1x and Whistler.
• POE (Power Over Ethernet).
• Configure the Addtron AWS-110 AP via SNMP
• Absolue Value System's staff wrote a Whitepaper about WLAN and its various modes.
• Overview of IEEE 802.11 standard.
• Article @ Tom“s Hardware.
• Exploiting and Protecting 802.11b Wireless Networks @ Extreme Tech.
• SecurityFocus.com:
  • Articles:
    • Basic Security Mechanisms for Wireless Networks @ SecurityFocus.com.
    • Security Solution in Ericsson Wireless LAN Systems.
    • Security in Public Access Wireless LAN Networks.
  • Discussions threads:
    • Emulating a wireless AP.
    • Wireless Lans give EVERYONE ACCESS.
    • wireless LAN traffic sniffing.
    • Wireless (In)Security.
      • http://www.vertrauen.org/wireless/Wavesurfing.html
    • (in)Security in 802.11 WEP Algorithm.
      • http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/isaac/wep-faq.html
        • http://www.cs.umd.edu/~waa/wireless.html
    • Dsniff'ng wireless networks
    • Replacing WEP was Re: Dsniff'ng wireless networks.
    • 802.11B and libpcap.
• Replacing WEP with IPsec ... using OpenBSD.
• Using a Unix computer as a 802.11 wireless base station.

Hardware

• Manufacturers and products links
  • Intersil (ex Harris)
    • PRISM home page
      • Software page (mainly for MS Windows)
  • Addtron
  • LinkSys
  • D-Link
  • Eumitcom
  • Ambicom
  • Zcom
    • Prism 2.5-based mini-PCI card.
  • GemTek
  • CC&C
  • Winmate
• MART (Mobile Ad-hoc Routing Testbed) @ hut.fi.
• info about hardware types and support under OpenBSD.

Antennas

• Yagi antennas for 802.11b.
• Primestar Dish, Build a dish antenna for $10!.
• New Zealand guy site about adding an external antenna to an Apple Airport.
• Trevor Marshall article about antenna design @ BYTE.com

Software

Linux

• Absoulte Value Systems“ linux-wlan project
  • Main page.
  • FAQ.
  • Download FTP repository.
  • wlan-devel mailing list archives (@ Neohapsis)
    . Some interesting threads/posts:
    • Serial port in Addtron AP.
    • AP mode firmware discussion.
    • AP mode firmware download, post by <acevirgil@inwind.it>.
    • prism2dl utility download, post by <acevirgil@inwind.it>.
    • WVLAN_CS-PRISM2 driver, post by <acevirgil@inwind.it>.
    • How to make AP mode work, [2], [3].
    • Compaq offers AP software for free fot their WL200 cards?.
    • explanation about host/software AP mode.
    • WEP.
    • Tools for measuring signal stength.
  • wlan-user mailing list archives.
  • wlan-announce mailing list archives.
• Projects @ SourceForge (SFPHP = Source Forge Project Home Page):
  • WEPcrack [SFPHP].
  • AirSnort [SFPHP].
  • wavelan-tools.
  • AirIDS [SFPHP].
  • Driver [SFPHP] for wireless ethernet USB devices using the Atmel AT76C503A chip (including the DLink DWL-120 adapter).
  • KOrinoco - wireless LAN Client Manager [SFPHP].
  • dwl-1000ap-config [SFPHP] - A perl CLI config tool for the D-Link DWL-1000AP AP (uses SNMP).
  • A library providing intuitive and easy to use routines for retrieving and manipulating data related to wireless interface devices.
  • SLAN [SFPHP] (Secured LAN/Internet Link) project providing a cross platform Virtual Private Networking (VPN) solution.
• Host AP Linux driver for Intersil Prism2 (using card as AP w/o the need of a firmware update).
• Linux driver for Lucent Technologies' WaveLAN/IEEE wireless LAN card by Andreas Neuhaus.
• Linux driver for Aironet Arlan cards.
• BROKEN LINK Linux driver for Webgeat Aviator2.4 cards.
• Linux driver for Raytheon Raylink cards.
• Tim Newsham site with useful patches and utilities for packet capture.
• prismdump.
• Goonda (hw comparative, links).
• OpenAP.
• How to boost Linksys AP range by re-programming register that controll RF power.
• BAWUG.
• NoCat networks.

Windows

• Wild Packets
  • AiroPeek
• WLAN expert: An utility for PRISM II based 802.11b adapters.
• RASPPPOE: A free for non-commercial use PPPOE Client for Win 98/ME/SE/2K/XP/2002.