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| Posted by: | dragorn |
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| Subject: | Kismet not spotting clients |
| Date: | 14:47:15 13/04/2013 |
> I'm running Kismet 2013-03-R0 on a Raspberry Pi, and it doesn't seem to be very successful at detecting wireless clients.
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> As a test, I booted up my laptop, had it connect to my wireless AP, and ran a flood ping (a minimum of 100 packets per second) for 15 minutes (transmitting a quarter-million packets in the process). My laptop didn't show up as a client. I tried the same thing with an open AP that a neighbor runs, with the same result.
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> Clients do show up occasionally for wireless APs, but not very often. Any idea what's going on?
Could be your wireless card isn't reliably reporting packets; there isn't really anything in kismet that makes it, or makes it not, see clients - if it gets a data packet from a client, it shows up.
You could try looking at the logs with wireshark and see if things are obviously missing; maybe you're only getting a fragment of the packets.
It's not impossible that there's a bug in Kismet but in general if it sees ANYTHING it means the decoders are working OK.
- Kismet not spotting clients - Carnildo 08:22:54 13/04/2013
- Kismet not spotting clients - dragorn 14:47:15 13/04/2013
- Kismet not spotting clients - shutin 02:42:51 15/05/2013
- Kismet not spotting clients - Carnildo 10:49:11 15/05/2013