If you have a linux or bsd box...just use Kismet for scanning for networks. It's alot easier and has built-in collection of initialization vector frames alongside scanning...so you can just run one application to do most of the hard work for you.

I'd recommend using two machines; one to capture IV frames while another machine conducts a deauth attack to keep the IV frames flowing. This is a bit more obnoxious to the legitimate users of the access point, but it's the only way to break into a non-congested network in a reasonable amount of time. Aireplay can handle the deauth attack for you.

Once you have a ton of IV frames, use aircrack to conduct various attacks.

If you're on a recent Mac, get KisMAC. It features most of Kismet's features as well as the ability to conduct attacks from within kisMAC.

This post has been edited by ethergeek: Dec 11 2007, 05:38 PM

@ethergeek : take care, read the forum rules once more. I'm afraid you are at the outer edge of legal things with the things you write. If a mod happens to come around here, he would probably delete this post, at least.

I am planning to have setup a Bluetooth wireless network and build a application on that, but before that i want to know the drow backs of the bluetooth wireless network . So i need help from the guys who have alreday developed such network and developed some application on that.

Some of the drow backs that i have collected are.

-- security is the main concern, any one can hack such network by just knowing the MAC number of the Bluetooth device,

-- limited range, although there 100 mt range bluetooth dongle in the market, the quality of the data sent is the consern as there will be more data loss in this network.

--streeming over Bluetooth is a big issue. (Need help if any one has done this)

-- Most of the bluetooth dongle avilable in indian market has got same MAC number, this is big consern in building network.

these are the some issues with Bluetooth network.

If you have already experiance in such network you can help me to provide some of the solution to these issues and you can add some more issues to this list, so that will be aware of all this before i put my hand in this.