[Linux-disciples] Re: Continuing name-resolution weirdness

[Stephen R Laniel]

Ah: there is Kismet:
http://www.kismetwireless.net/

This page suggests its value toward the goal we're
discussing:
http://shorl.com/gugregytebabry

Package: kismet
Priority: optional
Section: universe/net
Installed-Size: 2448
Maintainer: Francois Gurin <matrix at debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 2004.04.R1-1.1
Depends: libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libexpat1 (>= 1.95.6), libfreetype6 (>= 2.1.5-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.3.4-1), libgmp3, libice6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libjpeg62, liblcms1 (>= 1.08-1), libmagick6, libncurses5 (>= 5.4-1), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.5.0-4), libsm6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libstdc++5 (>= 1:3.3.4-1), libtiff4, libx11-6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libxext6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libxml2 (>= 2.6.10), libxt6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1), wireless-tools, ethereal-common
Suggests: wget, sox, festival, gpsdrive
Filename: pool/universe/k/kismet/kismet_2004.04.R1-1.1_i386.deb
Size: 953826
MD5sum: 0d326ad387733dfe4437886d81c573f1
Description: Wireless 802.11b monitoring tool
 Kismet is a 802.11b wireless network sniffer.  It is capable of sniffing
 using almost any supported wireless card using the Airo, HostAP, Wlan-NG,
 and Orinoco (with a kernel patch) drivers.
 .
 Can make use of sox and festival to play audio alarms for network events
 and speak out network summary on discovery.  Optionally works with gpsdrive
 to map scanning.
Bugs: mailto:ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Origin: Ubuntu

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