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AP name
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 12:11 pm
by ghostlinker
Hi,
I would be very useful to see the AP name. I have tested many wifi sniffing tools, and only Etherscope by Fluke is able to give me the AP name.
I have Cisco 1142 APs ad running multiple units with the same SSID. Instead of using the MAc and reverse engineer the AP name, I would like to get the AP name from your soft. If they can do it with Etherscope, my guess it should be pretty simple to get the AP name
Can you help ?
Linker
Re: AP name
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 1:16 pm
by ACalcutt
Vistumbler has built in labeling that lets you input all you mac addresses / ap names (Settings -> Set Labels by Mac). For bulk imports I usually edit (Vistumbler\Settings\Labels.mdb) directly.
Are you talking about pulling the access point name (not SSID) directly from the access point? I'm not sure if I would be able to do something like that with my current netsh/native wifi api set, but I can take a look to see if its possible.
Re: AP name
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 1:56 pm
by ghostlinker
Thanks Andrew for the quick reply.
I was looking for the AP name directly from the access point. When I launch a capture, the info is part of the beacon frame.
(SSID="CNV" , Name="mtlhq11a-ap9")
I would like to see a column with the Name value, next to the MAC address.
Hope this is not to difficult to do
regards,
Linker
Re: AP name
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 9:53 am
by ACalcutt
Right now vistumbler is not working on the packet level.
There is an autoit winpcap udf, but I think to use it for wifi data the card would have to be able to go into promiscuous mode. Without promiscuous mode I think I can only get packets of the access point I am connected to. It doesn't look like my laptops 4965 AGN card is able to go into promiscuous mode in windows, so I didn't get that far in testing it out.