Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Rogue AP Detection & Bad URL

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 13:10:42 -0700
On Wednesday, July 16, 2003, at 1:03 PM, Colburn wrote:

They state in their chart (excerpt below) that Ethereal does not handle
"Rogue AP detection.  Is this correct?
Yes.

Will this feature be added some time soon?
Only if somebody contributes code to implement it soon.  Ethereal 
doesn't currently have a lot of the "expert" mechanisms that some other 
network analyzers do; much of that analysis would have to be done by 
hand by somebody looking at the capture, or by a script (Perl, Python, 
Ruby, shell, whatever) that processes, for example, the output of 
Tethereal (I don't know of any that do rogue AP detection).