aircrack-ng question/airodump-ng question

[Koin]

at my office we're performing a test on one of our WEP enabled routers, we want to see if aircrack really works.

i'm capturing packets/data with airodump-ng, using a proxim orinoco gold pcmcia card, got the wildpacket drivers, etc.

http://la.gg/upl/airodump.jpg (http://la.gg")

as you can see in my screen shot, there's our linksys router that i'm currently connected to (mac address ends in 23), then there's the WEP enabled one, (mac address ends in 19).

i want to know if i'm doing this correctly, and i'd like to know if there's anything else i'll need to do once this thing has enough data to perform the "crack".

and when i decide i have enough information to start cracking, i just close this application and find the output file, convert it to ivs with the tool that came with aircrack, then load it into aircrack and 'start'?

my last question is, what data am i waiting for here, the "packets" column (which i've outlined in red on the bottom) OR the "beacons" column, or the "data" column?

i'm assuming the packets one, but if that's the case i guess i'm too far from the router to be able to do this in a timely fashion...been running airodump-ng for 48 hours and this is the current progress. i might move my laptop closer to the other router if that's an issue.

also if anyone has any recommended amount i should gather before i start cracking that would be good too.
thanks in advance,
ed

[wifi-watch]

I think the best place for pentesting troubles is at http://airdump.net

They help me a lot.

[abitaz]

I don't know if you're using Windows or linux, but either way...

Yes, you need to collect data.
There's no need to convert the data. Just use aircrack on it. It's already in the correct format.
In order to collect data, there has to be data passing over the wireless network. If it is actually your network, try downloading a large file while airodump is running. This should create some data. Otherwise, you need to inject, which is a whole other story. If your usinf Windows, it's pretty rough. If you want, there is more information available at my blog, http://n00bhacker.blogspot.com

at my office we're performing a test on one of our WEP enabled routers, we want to see if aircrack really works.

i'm capturing packets/data with airodump-ng, using a proxim orinoco gold pcmcia card, got the wildpacket drivers, etc.

http://la.gg/upl/airodump.jpg (http://la.gg")

as you can see in my screen shot, there's our linksys router that i'm currently connected to (mac address ends in 23), then there's the WEP enabled one, (mac address ends in 19).

i want to know if i'm doing this correctly, and i'd like to know if there's anything else i'll need to do once this thing has enough data to perform the "crack".

and when i decide i have enough information to start cracking, i just close this application and find the output file, convert it to ivs with the tool that came with aircrack, then load it into aircrack and 'start'?

my last question is, what data am i waiting for here, the "packets" column (which i've outlined in red on the bottom) OR the "beacons" column, or the "data" column?

i'm assuming the packets one, but if that's the case i guess i'm too far from the router to be able to do this in a timely fashion...been running airodump-ng for 48 hours and this is the current progress. i might move my laptop closer to the other router if that's an issue.

also if anyone has any recommended amount i should gather before i start cracking that would be good too.
thanks in advance,
ed

[dubhouse]

and when i decide i have enough information to start cracking, i just close this application and find the output file, convert it to ivs with the tool that came with aircrack, then load it into aircrack and 'start'?

also if anyone has any recommended amount i should gather before i start cracking that would be good too.
thanks in advance,
ed

i've seen weak wep keys broken with as little as 2000 arp packets and some have needed up to 30k arp packets. it just depends on how complicated the key is. All numeric keys take far less packets to crack than alpha-numeric keys.