hi Jamie, You can also use dStumbler (a part of the bsd-airtools kit) to identify AP that do not broadcast their SSID in the management beacon...
http://www.dachb0den.com/projects/dstumbler.html If you don't have a BSD laptop laying around, you can always try using a CD based distro like WarBSD (think Knoppix, but for BSD): http://www.warbsd.com/ Hope this helps, -Lee On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, James Savage wrote: > Hi, > Has anyone found a method of identifying the presence of hidden (non > broadcast) SSIDs? NetStumbler locates all broadcast SSIDs but not hidden ones. > The alternative, I guess, is to go the spectrum analyzer route and look for > sources in the 2.4g range. There was a discussion quite some time ago (end > of '01) about these devices. Does anyone have some recent advice/suggestions. > > ....thanks in advance........Jamie > > James Savage York University > Senior Com. Tech. 108 Steacie Bldg. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4700 Keele Street > phone: 416-736-2100 ext.22605 Toronto, Ontario > fax: 416-736-5701 M3J 1P3, CANADA > /\ /\ /\ /\ > / \ / \ / \ / \ > \ / \ / \ / > \/ \/ \/ > > ********** > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group > discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/cg/. > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/cg/.
