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Old 09-21-2004   #5 (permalink)
renderman
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A WRT54G setup with the Kismet Drone reporting back to the home station would be able to tell you if any of the AP's in range stopped transmitting might be an alternative. If everything is on the same channel, then it's very easy to see when the ssid broadcast 'heartbeat' has stopped. Also good for seeing if anyone is trying anything sneaky.

Suggest turning off packet capture though, gets rid of any privacy issues, unless you make packet gathering for maintinence purposes part of your TOS.

Just a thought.
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