• Does my wireless adapter support packet injection?
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I bought this wireless adapter last week [url]http://www.amazon.com/Adapter-Wardriving-Extension-Strongest-Market/dp/B000QYGNKQ[/url] and was wondering if it supported packet injection. I've been googling around, but with no avail. Thanks
It looks like some generic Wofat brand, so it probably uses something like a Realtek chipset. Some Realtek wireless chipsets support packet injection. The only way to find out what chipset it has is to crack it open and find out. Googling the chipset will give you far more results than some noname brand.
Apparently it works well for packet injection ([url]http://wiki.robotz.com/index.php/Alfa_AWUS036H_500mW_USB_WiFi_Adapter[/url]), since you already have it you might as well just fire up a Backtrack4 live CD and try it out for yourself (on your own network I hope :wink:).
Why would you want to inject packets?
[QUOTE=doonbugie;20918340]Why would you want to inject packets?[/QUOTE] To try an generate more traffic on a wireless network so you can capture WEP initilization vectors. The more IV's the better when it comes to cracking WEP encrypted networks. Alternatively you could use it to inject deauthentication packets to try and boot a computer off a WPA network so that when the client reauthenticates you can capture the WPA handshake and attempt to crack it. There's lots more you can do, if you're interested in penetration testing (on your own wifi network :wink:) lookup aircrack-ng.
[QUOTE=M2k3;20923691]To try an generate more traffic on a wireless network so you can capture WEP initilization vectors. The more IV's the better when it comes to cracking WEP encrypted networks. Alternatively you could use it to inject deauthentication packets to try and boot a computer off a WPA network so that when the client reauthenticates you can capture the WPA handshake and attempt to crack it. There's lots more you can do, if you're interested in penetration testing (on your own wifi network :wink:) lookup aircrack-ng.[/QUOTE] This.
[QUOTE=kEat0n;20925028]This.[/QUOTE] Hmm I like the concept of taking over a router. And most newbs leave the default admin pword and use WEP anyways.
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