Re: Wireless SSID discovery

[Seth Fogie <seth () fogieonline com>]

I am also surprised no one mentioned essid_jack. It too kicks current 
clients and monitors the reauthentication...all in one package.

Aaron Drew wrote:
> I'm surprised no-one has mentioned void11. 
>
> This tool works with prism2 cards and injects a spoofed deauthentication 
> message from the AP to the client. This forces the client to reconnect. If 
> you have 2 cards or 2 laptops, you can deauthenticate with one and listen for 
> the SSID with kismet on another.
>
> On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 06:12 am, Todd Towles wrote:
>
> > Kismet doesn't need it to be broadcast to get the SSID, it looks at the
> > packets. As you sure you have the correct key?
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Andrew Bagrin [mailto:abagrin () gmail com]
> > > Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 8:43 PM
> > > To: pen-test () securityfocus com
> > > Subject: Wireless SSID discovery
> > >
> > > I'm doing a wireless pen-test and am able to use aircrack  to
> > > crack the wep key, however, when I use Kismet, Cain, airdump
> > > etc.. I can't get the SSID of a the access point if the SSID
> > > broadcast has been disabled.  Does anyone know how to do
> > > this, or is there any tools that will let you get the SSID
> > > even if its not being broadcasted.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Andrew