Kismet crashing problem

Kismet crashing problem

Postby macubergeek » Thu Jun 08, 2006 5:13 am

I've been having this problem with Kismet seg faulting.

Kismet launches and runs for a while just fine.
then it seg faults:
/usr/local/bin/kismet: line 72: 2901 segmentation fault "Didn't detect any Cisco Discovery Packets, unlinking Cisco dump."

I searched kismet.conf and found line 243
logtypes=dump,networ,cvs,xml,weak,cisco,gps

Now when I change the line to:
logtypes=dump,networ,cvs,xml,weak,gps
the above seg faulting goes away.

My question is what kismet capability am I giving up here? Am I supposed to be logging the Cisco Discovery packets?
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Postby Thorn » Thu Jun 08, 2006 5:20 am

macubergeek wrote:My question is what kismet capability am I giving up here?
You're giving up exactly what you thought: The Cisco Discovery packets.

macubergeek wrote:Am I supposed to be logging the Cisco Discovery packets?
Not unless you need them for some specific purpose. I've rarely seen them (usually around large enterprise WLANS), and have never had use for them in pure WarDriving.
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Postby wrzwaldo » Thu Jun 08, 2006 6:16 am

@ OP,

You can also do away with dump,networ, and weak if you are just wardriving.

If I recall correctly I am only logging the following when I drive.

logtypes=cvs,xml,gps

If I am doing some type of audit I will use some of the others.
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Postby Mark57 » Thu Jun 08, 2006 11:16 am

wrzwaldo wrote:@ OP,

You can also do away with dump,network, and weak if you are just wardriving.

If I recall correctly I am only logging the following when I drive.

logtypes=cvs,xml,gps

If I am doing some type of audit I will use some of the others.


I second that! The dump files will fill your drive quickly when you're stumbling. I only log cvs, xml, gps.
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Thanks all

Postby macubergeek » Fri Jun 09, 2006 4:33 am

Thanks all
good advice.
Oddly enough Kismet's behavior differs by version. The most current version is sensitive to listing the cisco dump file. the 2005 version isn't.
No matter. I'm revising my kismet.conf to fit war driving.
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