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Programming questions about Kismet wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system.

Kismet is a wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. Kismet works predominately with Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11) networks, but can be expanded via plug-ins to handle other network types. (https://www.kismetwireless.net/index.shtml)

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How can someone get the BSSID of a router without connecting to it?

How can someone get the BSSID of a router without connecting to it in order to differentiate between duplicate SSIDs? Does a router broadcast the BSSID?
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kismet on raspberry pi failed ./configure libwebsockets

The step before doing the 'make' requires the ./config. It is failing with the following checking for libwebsockets... no configure: error: Package requirements (libwebsockets >= 3.2.0) were not met: Requested 'libwebsockets >= 3.2.0' but version…
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How to read pcapng file stream from kismet

I am using kismet running on a raspberry pi to capture network data that I need to analyze in real time on another device. Kismet's api has an endpoint to receive a stream of binary data in the pcapng format. I have successfully been able to read…
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Error with newer Kismet but works with older Kismet

I have a Python script that pulls data from a generated .kismet file so that the information is presented in a summarised format. This file is generated when you stop running Kismet and is a SQLite database underneath. When I run my Python script on…
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Limiting Kismet log files to a size or duration

Looking for a solid way to limit the size of Kismet's database files (*.kismet) through the conf files located in /etc/kismet/. The version of Kismet I'm currently using is 2021-08-R1. The end state would be to limit the file size (10MB for…
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Problem retrieving devices from Kismet through REST endpoint

I am not able to retrieve the json data from kismet rest api endpoint through Curl. The problem is it asks for the password even though I have specified it. I have tried diffrent ways like curl -u root:friends…
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Kismet API: Curl only device name and MAC address?

Trying to curl the `/devices/... APIs for specific information only. I'm trying the following, without success. http://user:pswd@192.168.1.1:2501/devices/views/all/devices.json -X POST -d 'json={"fields": "[\"kismet.device.base.manuf\",…
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How to write a SQL query to pull a value from a nested json object identified by a variable field name

Problem: how to write a sqlite statement to select a value from a nested json object when the needed name is dynamic / variable. It is also important that this can be done from a single sql statement. Eventually, this will be executed from within a…
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multi threaded version of a python code

I'm a beginner in python. I need to write a multi-threaded version of this code in such a way that I do not define K1, K2, K3 and assign them ip address and port number manually. In fact, I want each of k1,k2,and k3 be replaced by a separate thread…
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Kismet - How get MAC address, dbm_signal and time stamp?

I´m trying get the macadd, signal dbm and time stamp from devices near of my access point but I don´t know what the best approach to achive that. I wrote a small client (using python) to connect Kismet using the TCP port 2501. My script use…
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Kismet + Alfa for custom 2.420GHz frequency

I'm running Kismet with an Alfa awus036h on Ubuntu 12.10. Is there a way to scan the non-IEEE 2.420GHz frequency with this setup? When I try to set Kismet to monitor this non-standard frequency, it gives the following error: ERROR: Failed to set…
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Limit the size of the Kismet PCAP output file?

I am running some kismet captures, and I need to continuously parse the outputted PCAP files, so in order to do this I need Kismet to save the file, and start a new one periodically (I use inotify-tools to detect newly created files). But the…
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