NAME
kismet - Wireless sniffing and monitoring
SYNOPSIS
kismet [server-options] [- ]
[client-options]
kismet_server [-nqs ] [-t title ]
kismet_server [-nqs ] [-t title ]
[-f config-file ] [-c capture-source ]
[-C enable-capture-sources ] [-l
log-types ] [-d dump-type ] [-m
max-packets-per-file ] [-g gpshost:port ]
[-p listen-port ] [-a allowed-hosts ]
[-N server-name ]
kismet_client [-qr ] [-f config-file
] [-s serverhost:port ] [-g gui-type ]
[-c display-columns ]
DESCRIPTION
Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless
network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. Kismet
will work with any wireless card which supports raw monitoring
(rfmon) mode, and can sniff 802.11b, 802.11a, and 802.11g traffic.
Kismet identifies networks by passively collecting packets and
detecting standard named networks, detecting (and given time,
decloaking) hidden networks, and inferring the presence of
nonbeaconing networks via data traffic.
kismet supports logging to the wtapfile packet format
(readable by tcpdump and ethereal) and saves detected network
informat as plaintext, CSV, and XML. kismet is capable of
using any GPS supported by gpsd and logs and plots network
data.
kismet is divided into three basic programs,
kismet_server kismet_client and gpsmap
USAGE
kismet handles automatically starting
kismet_server and kismet_client.
kismet is installed as suid-root by default. It will drop
privs to the user specified in kismet.conf immediately after
binding and configuring the capture source.
KISMET_SERVER
kismet_server captures, dissects, and
logs packets and GPS data. It is capable of running in `headless'
mode with no display. Multiple clients (on multiple computers) can
be connected to a single server.
- -I
- Set the initial channel for a channel source (source:channel)
- -x
- Forcibly enable the channel hopper
- -X
- Forcibly disable the channel hopper
- -t
- Set the title used for the %t field of the logfile template
- Set the title used for the %t field of the logfile template
(Default: Kismet)
- -n
- Disable all logging
- -f
- Use an alternate config file
- -c
- Override capture source lines (type,interface,name). Refer to
kismet.conf(5)
for more information. Multiple capture source options can be
specified for multiple sources. All sources provided here are
automatically enabled unless an enable list is also supplied.
- -C
- Comma-separated list to override what capture sources are
enabled.
- -l
- Override logging types, comma separated (dump, cisco, weak,
csv, xml, gps)
- -m
- Override maximum packets logged per file
- -q
- Override sound option and run in quiet mode
- -g
- Override GPS host:port
- -p
- Override port to listen on for clients
- -a
- Override list of client IPs or network/mask blocks (comma
separated) allowed to connect
- -s
- Run in silent mode (no console status information)
- -N
- Override server name for this instance of Kismet
- -v
- Print version
- -h
- Help
KISMET_CLIENT
kismet_client is a ncurses and panels
interface which connects to the server and displays detected
networks, statistics, network details, etc.
- -f
- Use an alternate config file
- -u
- Use an alternate UI config file
- -q
- Override sound option and run in quiet mode
- -s
- Override server host:port
- -r
- Attempt to automatically restablish the connection if the
server terminates
- -g
- Override UI type (curses, panel)
- -c
- Override list of columns to display (comma seperated)
- -v
- Print version
- -h
- Help
GPSMAP
gpsmap reads GPS and Network XML datafiles
and plots networks on downloaded maps or user-supplied images (such
as satellite photos).
SEE ALSO
kismet_drone(1),
gpsmap(1),
kismet.conf(5),
kismet_ui.conf(5),
kismet_drone.conf(5)