[ale] Wireless Access Point MAC Addr

[barry at alltc.com (Barry Hawkins)]

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On Oct 2, 2004, at 6:36 AM, Benjamin Scherrey wrote:

> How do I find the MAC address of a remote wireless access point? Its 
> not physically present on the
> box and I don't have direct LAN access to it. I'm trying to set up a 
> PtP bridge with my own AP but
> apparently I need to be able to specifiy the MAC address for it to 
> work.
>
If you have the Wireless Tools (iwconfig, iwlist, iwspy, and iwpriv) 
installed, you can use iwlist to accomplish this.  For instance, the 
command:

# iwlist eth1 scanning

will return a list of cells with their associated information, which 
includes the MAC.  Your wireless card must support scanning in order to 
be able to do this.  I learned this through the O'Reilly book Linux 
Unwired; it's been a valuable resource for 802.11x and Bluetooth stuff. 
  In Debian, you can run:

# apt-get install wireless-tools

to get the Wireless Tools package installed.  I believe RedHat/Fedora 
and Mandrake use an RPM titled wireless-tools.

Regards,

Barry C. Hawkins
All Things Computed
site: www.alltc.com
weblog: www.yepthatsme.com


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