Open Source Sniffers, Wherefore Art Thou So Unreliable?
After writing last week how impressed I was with Wireshark, I should've known this was coming. I tested the latest version of KisMAC after upgrading to an 802.11g adapter and the result was nothing but frustration. For years now there has been one gleaming beacon in the otherwise dreary realm of open source Wi-Fi sniffers: KisMAC. Though it runs exclusively on Mac OS X, KisMAC makes the open source sniffing experience so much more enjoyable than Linux-based or Windows-based options like Kismet and Airodump. With KisMAC there are a variety of compatible adapters, the driver-loading process is automated and a slew of sniffing related activities (including packet injection, WEP cracking and Deauth floods, just to name a few) are included along with the basic capture and stumbling functions. The problem I've had with KisMAC recently is that most networks I need to sniff are 802.11g or 802.11a and my KisMAC capture adapter was 802.11b. For years I'd been using a reliable ol