From: Andrew A. Vladimirov (mlists@arhont.com)
Date: Thu Jun 10 2004 - 15:13:54 EDT
Mister Coffee wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 08:34:16PM -0000, mak_pen@hotmail.com wrote:
>
>
> The answer is, of course, "It depends on your situation." Personally, I like helical antennas, thought Yagi's have a large following. If you're talking about an exterior walk-around, you can probably get away with any number of small antennas.
Why to go for the small, gain does matter :) So does narrow beamwidth.
>
> As for wireless card . . . I'm kind of partial to the Cisco cards myself. If you're working with external antennas, then you'll want one that's easy to adapt. The less surgery you have to do on the card, the easier your life will be.
Cisco Aironet 350 LMC cards have excellent external MMCX connectors and
very good receive sensitivity. The automatic firmware-level channel
hopping means less hustle when scanning around. However, it also means
that you won't be able to lock the card on a single channel when in
RFMON. Also, not all specs are open to the general public, because of
that there is nothing like Airjack or HostAP (and tools that are built
using these wonderful drivers) for Cisco Aironet series.
Verdict: a wonderful card for wardriving and site surveying, but pretty
useless for serious wireless pentesting unless you are seriously into
firmware reverse engineering.
Cheers,
Andrew
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