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08-16-2001

I just spent the evening working with Wildpackets Airopeek, and going back and forth between WEP enabled and clear transmissions. With WEP enabled I get a lot of 802.11b data packets, and beacon packets and such. With WEP turned off I can see URLs and other clear text traffic just fine.

Still I wasn't able to do what I wanted to do. I was trying to find a way to discover the SSID of an AP that does not have beaconing enabled. Airopeek doesn't care if it is using the same SSID or not, it just grabs whatever if flying by, but if I ever wanted to actually get on the WLAN via an AP that is not advertising the SSID I would need to have a way to discover the SSID. I was hoping Airopeek would be it, but I guess not.

Anyone else know how to accomplish this?

08-16-2001	#9 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	I just spent the evening working with Wildpackets Airopeek, and going back and forth between WEP enabled and clear transmissions. With WEP enabled I get a lot of 802.11b data packets, and beacon packets and such. With WEP turned off I can see URLs and other clear text traffic just fine. Still I wasn't able to do what I wanted to do. I was trying to find a way to discover the SSID of an AP that does not have beaconing enabled. Airopeek doesn't care if it is using the same SSID or not, it just grabs whatever if flying by, but if I ever wanted to actually get on the WLAN via an AP that is not advertising the SSID I would need to have a way to discover the SSID. I was hoping Airopeek would be it, but I guess not. Anyone else know how to accomplish this?