'Deep Drill' Wi-Fi Scanner request

[romx]

"A Kingdom for a program!" ;)
Can something make a program for 'deep drill' scanning of wi-fi access points?
This program will be very useful!

Simple algoritm of deep drills of APs.

1. Scan a WiFi APs

2. Get list of unprotected APs

3. Trying to connect to (next) AP. If YES go to 4 if NO (MAC table protected) to 3 again.

4. If succesfully connected, trying to get IP (gateway, DNS) via DHCP.

5. If success, then ping by name any known good address (google.com for ex.), if fail go to 9.

6. If good ping, then trying to connect to 80 port.

7. If bad, trying to ping by IP. If 'ping-by-IP' good, then it's an AP with broken DNS but opened, set a known good DNS and ping by name again.

8. check content from 80 port, if got any 'ogin' or 'assword' word, then it's a password protected (usually 'non-free') AP, go to p.3. If no 'ogin' or 'assword', and google connected, then it's good free AP.

9. trying to set up a known IP's like 192.168.1.* (def.gw 192.168.1.1), 192.168.0.*, 10.0.0.* (or something else) and known good external DNSes (if it good open unprotected AP's without good DHCP it may helps), then go to 6.

10. write a good APs to list and display list to user (or automatically connecting and trying to get mail, renew rss feeds and so on).

[lucky-luke]

I supose that could be made with python. It looks not so complicated.
It would be a "need to have" script.

[n800user]

I join this request :)

[quentinwolf]

I also join this request. :) Would be a very handy utility to have on the 700 / n800.

[Karel Jansens]

I have only a vague idea of what you're talking about :p but if it helps me getting a better WiFi-connection in the wild outdoors, me wantee.

[disq]

yep. good idea.

[Milhouse]

Enhancement (already!): A history of past scans would be useful to speed up finding a usable AP which has been scanned (and known to work) in the past.

+1 vote

[Toontje]

I second the request although it would take all the fun out of finding 'illegal' internet access yourself. :-)

[marlaw]

I'm really interested in something like this too.
I'm just about to start development with python and I will try to do something.
In theory, you can do all this with a shell script ..
If anyone wants to collaborate with me you can send me a message.

I would even add, if the network is encrypted with wpa/wpa2/wep try dictionary attack, if doesn't work and is wep try collecting IV's to guess the key.

:P

[treasonx]

an automated way of running aircrack on a wep network would be a good addition.

[ArnimS]

A scanner and internet-checker for open nets would be useful.

Auto-Cracking closed lans would not be legal in most countries and worse still, not feasible.

[marlaw]

If you use the software in your own house it magically becomes legal.
Same thing for all other software more or less automated such as aircrack, dsniff, tcpdump etc etc.

Is not the knife witch is illegal but the use, isn't it ?

[rixojonas]

Having this kind of online-when-available capability would definitely make using my n810 a lot more convenient. This would take the (ever-so-slight) pain out of manually connecting to 1st-time networks. It could also be a nice compliment to any connection-aware applications that require a working internet connection to function (for example, an offline/online-mode twitter client, offline gmail, etc.).

Really good idea!

[www.rzr.online.fr]

I supose that could be made with python. It looks not so complicated.
It would be a "need to have" script.


Is there some API to control the network manager from maemo ?

Else this may be done using shell scripting and using wireless-tools maybe ...

BTW, I am looking for a tool to report open hotspots' gps location... can you suggest one ?