Hello all, I'm setting up a Kismet IDS, and am currently just playing around with the whole thing. I've got a drone on one machine sending the data to a server which kicks out raw data to /tmp/kismet_dump. My end goal is to have a script that takes in the event logs of kismet live, and dump them into a MySQL table. I've googled around on how to conduct this with Snort, and I've gotten snort to read in the packet captures, but it ignores events like someone starting NetStumbler (which kismet is picking up). The question is that I am getting data kicked out like this: 
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From the following simple file open 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

open(KISMET,"/tmp/kismet_dump") or die "$!";
while (<KISMET>) {
  print $_;
}

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Thanks all! BTW- when watching this stream, I do see SSID's of neighboring networks popping up.

In reply to Kismet Drone by satanklawz

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