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kismet-202509R1p2

802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and IDS

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Description

Kismet is an open source sniffer, WIDS, wardriver, and packet capture tool for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, BTLE, wireless thermometers, airplanes, power meters, Zigbee, and more. Kismet can operate both headless as a standalone capture and WIDS system, or with a full modern web-based UI.

Package information

Ports path
net/kismet
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Sebastian Reitenbach <sebastia@openbsd.org>
Categories
net, security
Available flavors
None listed
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, sparc64, alpha, hppa

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