Chapter 8. Kismet Drones

Solutions in this chapter:

  • Drone Installation
  • PC Drone Setup
  • Summary

Introduction

This chapter hopes to show you the various ways that Kismet drones can be used and integrated into your network monitoring. Kismet has a neat trick in terms of sources. The server doesn't need to be on the same system as the source feeding it. Kismet just receives packets and parses them into a human readable view, it doesn't care where that data comes from. Kismet supports an installation of remote, dumb sensors called drones. Drones sniff data from the air and send it down to the server. Kismet can handle several of these and they don't need to be powerful systems. This part of the book will focus on building drones and integrating ...

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