Archive for the ‘Sharkfest’ Tag

WiFi Pilot Post on CWNP.com

Posted May 30, 2009
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As you can see from the graphic on the left, I have a new blog post available on the CWNP homepage, http://www.cwnp.com 

If you are unfamiliar with the CWNP program, they are a vendor-neutral certification body for wireless networking and security.  

My most recent blog post at CWNP talks about a new product offering from CACE Technologies and MetaGeek, called “WiFi Pilot”.  The WiFi Pilot WLAN Analysis kit contains a WiSpy Spectrum Analyzer, an AirPcap wireless packet capture device, and the WiFi Pilot analysis software.  

Check out the review on CWNP for an extended discussion of product functionality, pricing, etc.  

One other thing that I mention in the post is the Sharkfest Conference for Wireshark Users and Developers.  The conference is being held Jun 15th – 18th.  I am attending the conference and *super* excited about it – feel free to email me at douglashaider <at> hotmail <com> if you are attending. I would love to meet up and chat!

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Sharkfest ’09

Posted April 20, 2009
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I admit it, I am getting jealous with all my colleagues Twittering about the RSA Conference this week at the Moscone Center in San Fransisco.  While the idea of heading to RSA hit me too late to make the logistics work, something that I am planning ahead for is Sharkfest 2009.   What is Sharkfest, you ask?  

Sharkfest is a conference dedicated to the optimization of the Wireshark Protocol Analyzer, which is now owned and managed by CACE Technologies. It is a 3 day conference being held near San Fransisco at Stanford University. The official dates for the conference are June 15th – 18th, 2009.  

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The conference has three tracks – one for basic users, one for advanced users, and one for developers.  I am pretty sure that you can mix and match sessions from all three tracks.  The cost of the conference is only $695 per person, and each paid attendee gets a free AirPcap Classic adapter ($198 value), which lets you do 802.11 b/g packet capture in Windows, directly through Wireshark. Groups of 3 or more are also eligible for a 10% discount.  

If you have been following my blog, you know that I am a wireless packet junkie.  I am attending Sharkfest with a couple other Principal Technologists from Xirrus.  It looks like they have a great speaker lineup with Mike Kershaw (Kismet creator), Fyodor, Laura Chapell, etc.  Of course, they will have Wireshark engineers and developers on-hand as well.  

If you are interested in registering for Sharkfest, I would suggest doing it soon.  This is the second year for the conference and the conference organizers told me that they are limiting the number of attendees so that it doesn’t grow out of hand too quickly.  As someone who attended the first several Shmoocon conferences, I can tell you that you want to get in on the ground floor.   

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Packet Analysis 2.0

Posted April 9, 2009
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It seems like I am going to bring my wireless packet analysis to a whole other level – “Packet Analysis 2.0”, if you will. Two of my favorite wireless capture and analysis tools have recently been updated – OmniPeek Professional and Wireshark.

I have been at meetings at our company HQ (Xirrus) most of this week, so I haven’t had a lot of hands-on time with either updated tool.

OmniPeek Professional has just been updated to version 6.0.1, as of April 3rd. It seems to offer much more flexibility of viewing multiple data windows through mechanisms similar to tabbed browsing.

I also downloaded a few plug-ins for OmniPeek Professional, including the multichannel aggregator – once I acquire one more USB 802.11n dual-band adapters, I will try to write a blog post documenting my experiences with the aggregation feature.

The new version of Wireshark seems to focus on a lot of bug fixes, although it includes an experimental package for Mac OS X 10.5.5 and above. Version 1.0.7 of Wireshark was announced April 8th. On the Wireshark front, I am attending Sharkfest this June, which I am pretty excited about.

Now that I am thinking about wireless product upgrades, I realized that AirMagnet also came out with an updated version to their Site Surveyor product about six weeks ago (version 6.1_13206)

So many product updates, so little time…

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