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Basic Service Set Identification - MAC address of an Wireless Access Point.

By design, unique 48-bit ID for identifying different radio chipsets used in variety of Wireless Access Points. Also known as , only strictly bind to WAP chipsets.

With 802.11 standard it might be a of client devices settuping an network.

BSSID usually is generated using:

  • 24-bit Organization Unique Identifier (OUI, usually an ID of the manufactorer)
  • 24-bit identifier given by manufactorer

Common way to write it down: HH:HH:HH:HH:HH:HH, there H - any hexadecimal number.

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How to distinguish whether a hotspot is from a mobile device or a wifi router?

I scan and get a wifi list(BSSID,SSID,RSSI,SECURITY...). Is there any information can help to distinguish whether a hotspot is from a mobile device or a wifi router without connecting to it?
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Get bssid of a client I am connected to using ruby on rails

Can anybody help me with how to retrieve bssid of a client using ruby on rails code, I dont want mac address but bssid?
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Obtain all WiFis' SSIDs & BSSIDs

How can I get all BSSIDs of the iw and iwinfo commands' output? Here are iw and iwinfo commands to get all the SSIDs. iw: iw dev wlan0 scan 2>/dev/null | awk ' /SSID: / { if (!seen[$0]++) { printf "\"" for (i = 2; i <= NF; i++) if (i == 2)…
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How to get BSSID of wifi i'm connecting to in Unity (C#)?

How can I get BSSID (MAC address of the wifi router I'm connecting in, not my device MAC Address) in my Unity Game App on Android and iOS phone? I have tried these method but none of them working.I check the result by printing it on game scene.…
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Determining all BSSIDs that exist on a network

I'm building an application that needs to know whether the currently connected BSSID is a part of a larger network that is restricted to a building. For example, if I pull an access point's BSSID on one floor, how can I determine (without doing a…
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I created a simple android app to read the bssid of the currently connected AccessPoint but it always shows me "02:00:00:00:00:00"

as you can see I already added ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION & ACCESS_WIFI_STATE and I also granted it. its also in the AndroidManifest, it just wont work.. the code: package com.nx.bssid_a13; import android.Manifest; import…
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Get BSSID (access point MAC address) from C++

I'm looking for a C++ method to get the BSSID (access point MAC address) on Windows platform. Is there a way to get this?
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Windows forms c# connect to specific accesspoint by BSSID

I have a windows form written in c#. I've made a listview that finds and sums up every wifi network it can detect, giving the SSID, BSSID, and more. I'm using ManagedNativeWifi to get all the information about the wifi networks. I'm looking for a…
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How to get BSSID of Access Point from client?

I am developing a Django application and I need to know to which access point the client/user is connected to. By searching in the internet I found out that I can find it using the BSSID of the access point. The problem is I am unable to find a way…
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Scan all clients that connected to specific WIFI

Running everything on kali. I found all wifi networks nearby and their BSSIDs. I am using a network card with monitor mode on. Now I want to find all clients that connected to that specific BSSID Here is how this achieved with…
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getBSSID() returns "02:00:00:00:00:00" and getNetworkId() returns "-1" even with the "ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" permission set

I just noticed that WifiManager.WifiInfo.getBSSID() now returns 02:00:00:00:00:00 and that WifiManager.WifiInfo.getNetworkId() returns -1 even with the ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION permission set. It's interesting because it used to work great before. It…
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How to get BSSID and SSID in android on Expo?

I want to get the BSSID and SSID info of an android mobile. I am developing my application on Expo. Currently I am using react-native-network-info module but its not working.
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Hostapd BSSID configuration

We have a device that creates an access point using the MAC address of wlan1 as the BSSID. We are trying to change this default BSSID, and we somehow manage to do it, but it seems our changes don't take an effect on what the clients see as BSSID for…
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Change hostapd BSSID

We have several devices that create an access point using wlan1 with hostapd. The problem is that all of them come with the same MAC address for wlan1, which translates in all the devices having the same BSSID, so when we have more than one device…
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How to connect to the specified BSSID?

In my case, i want to change AP connection. In my environment, there are two identical AP names, but their BSSID is different. Before android 6.0, My application works fine. In android 6.0, I chose one of the two AP names, android has disconnect…
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