Patent ID: 7440434

Claim:
A method for monitoring wireless access to local area network of computers, the method comprising: intercepting one or more packets over a wired portion of a local area network, the one or more packets being directed to a destination port on a selected device coupled to the wired portion of the local area network, the destination port being identified via a destination port number included in the one or more intercepted packets; determining the destination port number from the intercepted one or more packets; generating one or more packets in a selected format and being directed to the destination port on the selected device, the destination port being identified in the generated one or more packets via the destination port number determined from the intercepted one or more packets; transferring the generated one or more packets over the wired portion of the local area network to the selected device, the transferring being for testing whether the selected device outputs at least one packet from the transferred one or more packets to a wireless medium within a vicinity of the selected device; monitoring the wireless medium within the vicinity of the selected device; and inferring that the selected device is coupled to the wired portion of the local area network to provide wireless access to the wired portion of the local area network, the inferring being based in part upon the at least one packet from the transferred one or more packets being detected as outputted to the wireless medium.