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BSSID

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  • 1.  BSSID

    Posted Jun 23, 2017 10:57 AM

    Am using the netsh wlan show interfaces command to try to identify which AP I am associating too and its giving me a BSSID which I thought was the Mac of the AP but they are different. Hope this makes sense. Am I using the wrong command?., Thanks in advance.

    Harry.



  • 2.  RE: BSSID

    EMPLOYEE
    Posted Jun 23, 2017 11:13 AM

    An AP has multiple BSSIDs based on the SSID that you connect to and the band.  It will not equal the wired mac, but will be a number of bytes offset...



  • 3.  RE: BSSID

    Posted Jun 23, 2017 02:10 PM

    Thanks Colin, so you cannot tell from the BSSID to what AP you are connected too.



  • 4.  RE: BSSID

    EMPLOYEE
    Posted Jun 23, 2017 03:53 PM

    You would have to cross-reference the BSSID in the Netsh command with the "show ap bss-table" output on each AP.