Netstumbler does not detect AP's that do not broadcast their SSID. I know Kismet and Wellenreiter do, I cant speak for the others.
--Chris -----Original Message----- From: Luiz Ot�vio Duarte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 9:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: wireless access point Hi, >Is there any way of detecting wireless access point that doesn't >broadcast >the SSID? Yep, It's possible. I will tell you why: We have two probing modes for channels in a 802.11 network. - Activing probe - Is when the prober machine exchange some probe frames with the AP. - RFMON - Radio Frequency Monitor (Passive probe) - when the probe machine capture all data in the channel and try to find some SSID (Service Set Identification) You can find AP that does not broadcast the SSID using any probe technique. You can use: Netstumbler, DStumbler, Kismet, Wellenreiter, THC-RUT, WEPCrack, AirSnort, .... That's All Folks! -- ## # Luiz Ot�vio Duarte (lod at acmesecurity dot org) # www.acmesecurity.org/~lod ## # ACME! (Computer Security Research) # www.acmesecurity.org ## # Unesp - S�o Jos� do Rio Preto - S�o Paulo - Brazil ## --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
