Find MAC address of wireless you're connected to

Is it possible to find this at all? I know you can do an ipconfig /all to show the local MACs of the internal NICs, but lets say for example that i'm connecting to multiple wireless APs with the same SSID, is it possible to find out the MAC address of the SSID i'm currently connected to?

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georgemc

mr2nut wrote: »

Is it possible to find this at all? I know you can do an ipconfig /all to show the local MACs of the internal NICs, but lets say for example that i'm connecting to multiple wireless APs with the same SSID, is it possible to find out the MAC address of the SSID i'm currently connected to?

Hmmm. What does your ARP table say?

mr2nut

georgemc wrote: »

Hmmm. What does your ARP table say?

As it's an AP and not a router, unfortunately it doesn't give you the MAC

I'm not sure if there are any bits of freeware out there that can tell you the MAC of the SSID you're currently paired with...?

RobertKaucher

Try WireShark. There has to be a way using it.

alan2308

RobertKaucher wrote: »

Try WireShark. There has to be a way using it.

This is probably your best bet. Start a capture right before you connect to the wireless network and find the packets involved in associating with the AP.

You might also take a look at Netstumbler. It might be able to do this.

tiersten

If you want to see what BSSID you're connected to then use:

netsh wlan show interfaces

If you want to see what the BSSIDs are for the detected networks then use:

netsh wlan show networks mode=bssid

Norrlands Turk

tiersten wrote: »

If you want to see what BSSID you're connected to then use:

netsh wlan show interfaces

If you want to see what the BSSIDs are for the detected networks then use:

netsh wlan show networks mode=bssid

Wow.. Thats really cool.

I am sure there are more impressive tools out there but as a rather new IT guy who studies for 70-291, what one can do with Netshell amazes me.