Wireless Hacks: 100 Industrial Strength Tips and Tools (Paperback)

Written for the intermediate to advanced wireless user, Wireless Hacks is full of direct, practical, ingenious solutions to real-world networking problems. Whether your wireless network needs to extend to the edge of your office or to the other end of town, this collection of non-obvious, "from the field" techniques will show you how to get the job done.

Table of Contents

Credits  

Foreword

Preface  

Chapter 1. The Standards 

      1. 802.11: The Mother of All IEEE Wireless Ethernet 

      2. 802.11a: The Betamax of the 802.11 Family  

      3. 802.11b: The De Facto Standard  

      4. 802.11g: Like 802.11b, only Faster  

      5. 802.16: Long Distance Wireless Infrastructure  

      6. Bluetooth: Cable Replacement for Devices  

      7. 900 MHz: Low Speed, Better Coverage  

      8. CDPD, 1xRTT, and GPRS: Cellular Data Networks  

      9. FRS and GMRS: Super Walkie-Talkies  

      10. 802.1x: Port Security for Network Communications

      11. HPNA and Powerline Ethernet  

      12. BSS Versus IBSS  

Chapter 2. Bluetooth and Mobile Data 

      13. Remote Control OS X with a Sony Ericsson Phone  

      14. SMS with a Real Keyboard  

      15. Photo Blog Automatically with the Nokia 3650  

      16. Using Bluetooth with Linux  

      17. Bluetooth to GPRS in Linux  

      18. Bluetooth File Transfers in Linux  

      19. Controlling XMMS with Bluetooth  

Chapter 3. Network Monitoring 

      20. Find All Available Wireless Networks  

      21. Network Discovery Using NetStumbler  

      22. Network Detection on Mac OS X  

      23. Detecting Networks Using Handheld PCs  

      24. Passive Scanning with KisMAC  

      25. Establishing Connectivity  

      26. Quickly Poll Wireless Clients with ping  

      27. Finding Radio Manufacturers by MAC Address  

      28. Rendezvous Service Advertisements in Linux  

      29. Advertising Arbitrary Rendezvous Services in OS X

      30. "Brought to you by" Rendezvous Ad Redirector  

      31. Detecting Networks with Kismet  

      32. Running Kismet on Mac OS X  

      33. Link Monitoring in Linux with Wavemon  

      34. Historical Link State Monitoring  

      35. EtherPEG and DriftNet  

      36. Estimating Network Performance  

      37. Watching Traffic with tcpdump  

      38. Visual Traffic Analysis with Ethereal  

      39. Tracking 802.11 Frames in Ethereal  

      40. Interrogating the Network with nmap  

      41. Network Monitoring with ngrep  

      42. Running ntop for Real-Time Network Stats  

Chapter 4. Hardware Hacks 

      43. Add-on Laptop Antennas  

      44. Increasing the Range of a Titanium PowerBook  

      45. WET11 Upgrades  

      46. AirPort Linux  

      47. Java Configurator for AirPort APs  

      48. Apple Software Base Station  

      49. Adding an Antenna to the AirPort  

      50. The NoCat Night Light  

      51. Do-It-Yourself Access Point Hardware  

      52. Compact Flash Hard Drive  

      53. Pebble  

      54. Tunneling: IPIP Encapsulation  

      55. Tunneling: GRE Encapsulation  

      56. Running Your Own Top-Level Domain  

      57. Getting Started with Host AP  

      58. Make Host AP a Layer 2 Bridge  

      59. Bridging with a Firewall  

      60. MAC Filtering with Host AP  

      61. Hermes AP  

      62. Microwave Cabling Guide  

      63. Microwave Connector Reference  

      64. Antenna Guide  

      65. Client Capability Reference Chart  

      66. Pigtails  

      67. 802.11 Hardware Suppliers  

      68. Home-Brew Power over Ethernet  

      69. Cheap but Effective Roof Mounts  

Chapter 5. Do-It-Yourself Antennas 

      70. Deep Dish Cylindrical Parabolic Reflector  

      71. "Spider" Omni  

      72. Pringles Can Waveguide  

      73. Pirouette Can Waveguide  

      74. Primestar Dish with Waveguide Feed  

      75. BiQuad Feed for Primestar Dish  

      76. Cut Cable Omni Antenna  

      77. Slotted Waveguides  

      78. The Passive Repeater  

      79. Determining Antenna Gain  

Chapter 6. Long Distance Links 

      80. Establishing Line of Sight  

      81. Calculating the Link Budget  

      82. Aligning Antennas at Long Distances  

      83. Slow Down to Speed Up  

      84. Taking Advantage of Antenna Polarization  

      85. Map the Wireless Landscape with NoCat Maps  

Chapter 7. Wireless Security 

      86. Making the Best of WEP  

      87. Dispel the Myth of Wireless Security  

      88. Cracking WEP with AirSnort: The Easy Way  

      89. NoCatAuth Captive Portal  

      90. NoCatSplash and Cheshire  

      91. Squid Proxy over SSH  

      92. SSH SOCKS 4 Proxy  

      93. Forwarding Ports over SSH  

      94. Quick Logins with SSH Client Keys  

      95. "Turbo-Mode" SSH Logins  

      96. OpenSSH on Windows Using Cygwin  

      97. Location Support for Tunnels in OS X  

      98. Using vtun over SSH  

      99. Automatic vtund.conf Generator  

      100. Tracking Wireless Users with arpwatch  

Appendix: Deep Dish Parabolic Reflector Template  

Index