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Credits



Foreword



Preface



Chapter 1. The Standards

1. 802.11: The Mother of All IEEE Wireless Ethernet

2. 802.11a: The Betamax of the 802.11 Family

3. 802.11b: The De Facto Standard

4. 802.11g: Like 802.11b, only Faster

5. 802.16: Long Distance Wireless Infrastructure

6. Bluetooth: Cable Replacement for Devices

7. 900 MHz: Low Speed, Better Coverage

8. CDPD, 1xRTT, and GPRS: Cellular Data Networks

9. FRS and GMRS: Super Walkie-Talkies

10. 802.1x: Port Security for Network Communications

11. HPNA and Powerline Ethernet

12. BSS Versus IBSS



Chapter 2. Bluetooth and Mobile Data

13. Remote Control OS X with a Sony Ericsson Phone

14. SMS with a Real Keyboard

15. Photo Blog Automatically with the Nokia 3650

16. Using Bluetooth with Linux

17. Bluetooth to GPRS in Linux

18. Bluetooth File Transfers in Linux

19. Controlling XMMS with Bluetooth



Chapter 3. Network Monitoring

20. Find All Available Wireless Networks

21. Network Discovery Using NetStumbler

22. Network Detection on Mac OS X

23. Detecting Networks Using Handheld PCs

24. Passive Scanning with KisMAC

25. Establishing Connectivity

26. Quickly Poll Wireless Clients with ping

27. Finding Radio Manufacturers by MAC Address

28. Rendezvous Service Advertisements in Linux

29. Advertising Arbitrary Rendezvous Services in OS X

30. "Brought to you by" Rendezvous Ad Redirector

31. Detecting Networks with Kismet

32. Running Kismet on Mac OS X

33. Link Monitoring in Linux with Wavemon

34. Historical Link State Monitoring

35. EtherPEG and DriftNet

36. Estimating Network Performance

37. Watching Traffic with tcpdump

38. Visual Traffic Analysis with Ethereal

39. Tracking 802.11 Frames in Ethereal

40. Interrogating the Network with nmap

41. Network Monitoring with ngrep

42. Running ntop for Real-Time Network Stats



Chapter 4. Hardware Hacks

43. Add-on Laptop Antennas

44. Increasing the Range of a Titanium PowerBook

45. WET11 Upgrades

46. AirPort Linux

47. Java Configurator for AirPort APs

48. Apple Software Base Station

49. Adding an Antenna to the AirPort

50. The NoCat Night Light

51. Do-It-Yourself Access Point Hardware

52. Compact Flash Hard Drive

53. Pebble

54. Tunneling: IPIP Encapsulation

55. Tunneling: GRE Encapsulation

56. Running Your Own Top-Level Domain

57. Getting Started with Host AP

58. Make Host AP a Layer 2 Bridge

59. Bridging with a Firewall

60. MAC Filtering with Host AP

61. Hermes AP

62. Microwave Cabling Guide

63. Microwave Connector Reference

64. Antenna Guide

65. Client Capability Reference Chart

66. Pigtails

67. 802.11 Hardware Suppliers

68. Home-Brew Power over Ethernet

69. Cheap but Effective Roof Mounts



Chapter 5. Do-It-Yourself Antennas

70. Deep Dish Cylindrical Parabolic Reflector

71. "Spider" Omni

72. Pringles Can Waveguide

73. Pirouette Can Waveguide

74. Primestar Dish with Waveguide Feed

75. BiQuad Feed for Primestar Dish

76. Cut Cable Omni Antenna

77. Slotted Waveguides

78. The Passive Repeater

79. Determining Antenna Gain



Chapter 6. Long Distance Links

80. Establishing Line of Sight

81. Calculating the Link Budget

82. Aligning Antennas at Long Distances

83. Slow Down to Speed Up

84. Taking Advantage of Antenna Polarization

85. Map the Wireless Landscape with NoCat Maps



Chapter 7. Wireless Security

86. Making the Best of WEP

87. Dispel the Myth of Wireless Security

88. Cracking WEP with AirSnort: The Easy Way

89. NoCatAuth Captive Portal

90. NoCatSplash and Cheshire

91. Squid Proxy over SSH

92. SSH SOCKS 4 Proxy

93. Forwarding Ports over SSH

94. Quick Logins with SSH Client Keys

95. "Turbo-Mode" SSH Logins

96. OpenSSH on Windows Using Cygwin

97. Location Support for Tunnels in OS X

98. Using vtun over SSH

99. Automatic vtund.conf Generator

100. Tracking Wireless Users with arpwatch



Appendix: Deep Dish Parabolic Reflector Template



Index