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Can I tell what OS is connecting to my Agere wireless access point?

I'm not quite sure your exact question, but the easiest way to tell what OS is connecting to your WAP is probably to run an nmap portscan on whatever IP the machine's pulled and turn OS detection on. Some other portscanners may have that option but I am only really familiar with nmap. If the WAP router admin software can't tell you you pretty much have to actively try and figure out what the client machine is by scanning them or sniffing their traffic. Windows boxes generally give themselves away by doing netbios broadcasts trying to find other windows boxes/shares/printers on a LAN. Judging by the ports they have open will also give you a good idea of what OS someone is running unless they really wanted to protect that info for some reason or have a software firewall set up.

Out of curiosity, why can't you just wander around in the range of your WAP and see who's connecting to it? 🙂

Gaidin
 
What I am trying to do is to set up a public access point, and to be able to log what OS are connecting. IE: XP, 2k, 98, Linux. Thanks.
 


<< What I am trying to do is to set up a public access point, and to be able to log what OS are connecting. IE: XP, 2k, 98, Linux. Thanks. >>



Without scanning them, you can get most of that information from their browser.
 


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<< What I am trying to do is to set up a public access point, and to be able to log what OS are connecting. IE: XP, 2k, 98, Linux. Thanks. >>



Without scanning them, you can get most of that information from their browser. >>



I am kind of new at this. How would I go about doing that?
 


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<< What I am trying to do is to set up a public access point, and to be able to log what OS are connecting. IE: XP, 2k, 98, Linux. Thanks. >>



Without scanning them, you can get most of that information from their browser. >>



I am kind of new at this. How would I go about doing that? >>



Make them do some kind of authentication or something on a website. The information in the http headers can be tracked. Of course this can also be faked.
 
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