> Lucent Agere AP's can turn off SSID broadcasts, Netstumbler will still show > the MAC Address, but not the SSID. Another utility that may be able to > provide you more information SSID's is www.kismet.com
Yes .. this issue has been discussed on kismet's mailing list already. If beacons are disabled on the AP (broadcasting it's ssid) then you will be able to detect the MAC address and perhaps other things (dhcp, IP address ranges, etc.) on the AP. You can obtain the ssid if you happen to be in the area when another client which knows the ssid attempts to associate with the AP. I'm not sure about netstumbler or any others, but I do know for sure that Kismet knows of this and will recognize the ssid when another client associates. This led to all other sorts of discussion .. such as ways to force clients to reassociate with APs so they broadcast their association requests. Interesting topic .. coldie -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
