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(@mialta)
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Hi

There are a few linux distros which turn a pc into a wireless router a quick google should get you a list.

If one of these supports USB wireless devices you should be able to get it going in a VM.

Mialta

 
Posted : 15/01/2009 6:02 am
(@newwave)
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"My neighbor was using my wireless, or at least he used to"

Prove it.

Re-route to honeypot server?

 
Posted : 15/01/2009 7:36 am
CdtDelta
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What about something along the lines of dd-wrt on a Linksys WR54G? Or getting a Cisco 800 series router off of eBay? That gives you some cheap options to play around with, and there are certainly enough places on the web to find ways to hack the Linksys routers to do whatever you want.

Tom

 
Posted : 15/01/2009 8:24 am
thegavster
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Well i do have a WRT54GS that i have modded to run the DD-WRT v24 firmware and i am familar with it. However what i am really after is a method of actually extracting the cached inforamtion in the router that is recorded when ever a client accesses the internet or logs into the router etc. I need to have a forensicly sound method of extracting this data. Really i am after a way of actually analysising the data, like one would do when taking an "image" of an hard drive. Perhaps there is a way of utilising the way the memory is extracted from a stick of memory when a cold boot attack is performed. I dont really no….im not an expert. Sorry to be a bother!

 
Posted : 15/01/2009 2:04 pm
thegavster
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I was looking at a method of simulating the DD-WRT firmware on some kind of virtual machine (VMware). I did see the x86 version of the DD-WRT software, but simulating this would not be the same as an actual simulation of the routers firmware. I dunno….

 
Posted : 15/01/2009 2:07 pm
(@newwave)
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You're gonna need the datasheet for the specs. I'd just re-route in and out activity to a honeypot server where you could analyze at packet level rather than parsing some cache.

 
Posted : 15/01/2009 3:01 pm
thegavster
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OK got ya thanks for all that!

 
Posted : 15/01/2009 3:37 pm
(@dngroen)
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Ok iv been thinking bout this for a while and talked it over with my uni tutor. He agrees in saying it will be difficult to impliment. One solution would be to simulate the firmware of the router or try to see if there is a "wireless router virtual machine" that you can use to simulate data.

I have used VMware before. But i have never come across Vm that can simulate any type of networking device (ie router, wireless AP, switch etc). Has anyone else come across this or is more familiar than me, in virtual software that is capable of what i am trying to achieve. Im going to look now…..hope someone ca help.

BTW thanks everyone so far who has replied….big help!

Gav
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You could use packet tracer to simulate any cisco router and network configuration. It is ver simple and intuitive to use soyou should pick it up quite easy. Best of all it is free.

Dom

 
Posted : 15/01/2009 11:55 pm
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