Capture ESSID and BSSID in Windows

I want to programmatically capture the ESSID and BSSID of the Access
Point I am using. Doing this in Linux is a trivial task, but I can't
seem to find a good source for MS Windows. Can someone point me in
the right direction (source code, etc)? If such a thing exists, a
command line tool would suffice assuming I have source to work with.

Austin

On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:56:43 GMT, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>I want to programmatically capture the ESSID and BSSID of the Access
>Point I am using. Doing this in Linux is a trivial task, but I can't
>seem to find a good source for MS Windows. Can someone point me in
>the right direction (source code, etc)? If such a thing exists, a
>command line tool would suffice assuming I have source to work with.

The problem you're going to run into with Windoze is the inability to
place the client radio into the promiscuous or monitor mode. Normally,
the card will only respond to packets with a destination MAC of its
own MAC address and will not detect other MAC addresses. In monitor
mode, it can sniff ALL the traffic. Of course, all the Linux drivers
can do monitor mode.

The current trend is for Windoze driver scribblers to disable
promiscuous mode. Older drivers may have a functional promiscuous
mode, while newer drivers do not. For example, read the comments in
the right hand column:
http://www.micro-logix.com/WinPcap/C...ort.asp?ID=316
and the assortement of wireless cards that do NOT work with
AirSnare/WinPcap.
http://www.micro-logix.com/winpcap/Supported.asp



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