I'm looking for suggestions of Linux tools to perform wireless site surveys, specifically for Fedora. I found some programs such as Kismet, iwScanner, or the built in iwlist
program. Anyone have experience with any of these? Any recommendations?
Depends on what you need to survey, what your assignment is. If it's for logistics, like topology analysis, you will need a completely different set of tools than for security, where you can very easily get a lot of info by causing everyone to drop (airdrop-ng) and reconnect, then check the most important protocols to see what happens. For general - non-user-specific - analysis of the topology though, I would just grab a high bandwidth scope, possibly with some analysis functionality. Those are pretty expensive though lol, but yeah, 2.4 and 5 GHz microwave bands and huge amounts of high bandwidth heavily modulated signals...
I have a feeling this is the future: Cheap SDR, software, maybe a hardware mod or two: