BSD Portsnet-mgmt/kismet 2016.07.r1_2,1 DragonFly
802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and IDS
- System
- DragonFly
- Repository
- DPorts
- Maintainer
- [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
- License
- GPLv2
- Categories
- net-mgmt
- Package size
- 1060.0 KiB, 4557.0 KiB installed
Description
Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. Kismet will work with any wireless card which supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode, and can sniff 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g traffic.
Kismet identifies networks by passively collecting packets. In addition to standard networks, it can detect (and given time, decloak) hidden networks, and infer the presence of nonbeaconing networks via data traffic.
Capture sources that are known to be supported: Atheros, Prism2, WSP100, Drone, wtapfile, pcapfile. Kismet also supports radiotap headers and should work with current FreeBSD systems.
In the other systems
The newest version among them is 202509R1, as upstream numbers it.
| System | Port | Version | Vulnerabilities | Status | Maintainer | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DragonFly | net-mgmt/kismet | 2016.07.r1_2,1 | none known | - | [email protected] | - |
| FreeBSD | net-mgmt/kismet | 2016.07.r1_2,1 | none known | - | [email protected] | - |
| OpenBSD | net/kismet by name | 202509R1p2 newest | no data | - | Sebastian Reitenbach <[email protected]> | 2026-08-20 |
| MidnightBSD | net-mgmt/kismet | 2016.07.r1_1,1 | no data | - | [email protected] | - |
| HardenedBSD | net-mgmt/kismet | 2016.07.r1_2,1 | no data | - | [email protected] | - |
| GhostBSD | net-mgmt/kismet | 2016.07.r1_2,1 | no data | - | [email protected] | - |
Install
Binary package:
pkg install kismetFrom DPorts:
cd /usr/dports/net-mgmt/kismet && make install cleanDependency graph
Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.
Dependencies
Run dependencies 3
No port depends on this one.
Configuration
No options to configure.
- Service scripts
- none
Message after installing
kismet has been installed with a setuid-root capture helper binary, /usr/local/bin/kismet_capture, which may be executed by users in the kismet group. USERS IN THIS GROUP WILL BE ABLE TO ALTER NETWORK INTERFACE STATES, but this is more secure than running all of kismet as root. ONLY users in this group will be able to run kismet and capture from physical network devices.