[MLB-WIRELESS] Visited by Wardrivers?

Ryan Abbenhuys sneeze at alphalink.com.au
Sun Feb 8 13:45:51 EST 2004


I'm running HostAP which gives me MAC addresses of everything that connects
or even just stumbles the SSID.
For ones that appear to be more than just a stumble I just check the
dhcpd.leases file like yourself and make a note of the MAC and pc name.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Flett" <conhoolio at hotmail.com>
To: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Visited by Wardrivers?


>
> Do you have any super duper way of keeping track of the MAC addresses?  I
> just look through my dhcpd.leases file from time to time and keep a mental
> note of ones I've seen before.  I get a visitor on average once every two
> days.
>
> > > Anyone looking for free WWW  instead gets a free introduction to
> >Melbourne
> >Wireless. :)
> >
> >awww, no free introduction to goatse?  ;)
>
> I should pass that one through the firewall shouldn't I?
>
>
> Dan
>
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Dan Flett" <conhoolio at hotmail.com>
> >To: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
> >Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 1:10 PM
> >Subject: RE: [MLB-WIRELESS] Visited by Wardrivers?
> >
> >
> > > This is not a bad thing is it?  Did they do anything more than browse?
> > > Wardrivers are more than welcome to browse the daylights out of my
> >website.
> > > On the Melbourne Wireless network I bellieve it's more or less
expected
> >that
> > > anyone who connects to your or any other node will browse everything
you
> > > have publicly online.  And you can probably expect to be thouroughly
> > > port-scanned too.  If someone scans my node all I ask is that they
tell
> >me
> > > if they find any vulnerabilities.
> > >
> > > At the moment I have three addresses that my DHCP server hands out to
> >anyone
> > > who connects to my AP.  My firewall (Shorewall) redirects all
> >non-10.10.x.x
> > > requests to port 80 to my Node's website.  Anyone looking for free WWW
> > > instead gets a free introduction to Melbourne Wireless. :)
> > >
> > > Are other people doing similar things with their nodes?  If so, how?
> > >
> > > Dan
> > >
> > > >A big hello to  00:02:2d:66:7b:2b "LAPTOP"  and  00:0d:9d:c7:c6:38
> >"Paul"
> > > >
> > > >Looks like some friendly wardrivers stumbled across node FKR and
> >browsed
> > > >the
> > > >website thoroughly at AAF *cough* anonymously *cough*
> > > >
> > > >sometime between 11:40pm and 1:05am this evening/morning
> > >
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