discovering APs through broadcasts

[Fahd Al-Bin-Ali]

I have faced the same problem on Lucent AP 1000, what I did is the
following:

1- I have a Lucent program called cliproxy that does so, I ran it then
sniffed the packets.
2- Reverse engineered them.
3- Wrote my own code that does the same thing.

Ran it and it worked fine. So you might want to do something similar.

I hope thats of any help.

Regards,
Fahd
----- Original Message -----
From: "Giulio Orsero" <giulioo at pobox.com>
To: <wireless at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 7:11 AM
Subject: discovering APs through broadcasts


> I've got a Buffalo/Melco AP. It comes with a win utility to discover it
> through broadcast packets. I'd like to get that info from linux.
>
> I see they exchange info via udp broadcasts and that, in the AP answer,
> ESSID starts at byte 80, ip at 32, plus some more info.
>
> Is this a kind of standard communication protocol, so that I can find
> pre-made perl scripts that will show me all the output pretty formatted,
or
> will I have to make my own scripts... ?
>
> I need to get the info on a linux system that uses a non-wireless nic.
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> giulioo at pobox.com


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