So, i was doing a Wifi discovery for a client with Kismet.. a few normal home routers were being picked up but there was one that confused me.Maybe it was a 5Ghz network?
"Free Public WIFI"... For some reason this could only be picked up by IOS devices..
KISMET couldnt see it?
My Iphone could..
Now how the fuck does that work?
I know those aerohive boxes have something similar to that. Tbh I have no clue how to spoof that at the moment. Would need to do some research :)
Nor do I think your MAC filtering theory holds up , the AP sends broadcasts out to whoever is listening.Agreed. The most plausible explanation would be channel restrictions. In my country I can use 13 channels, but my Alfa is from another country that only supports 11 channels. In order for my Alfa to access 13 channels, I have to issue a "iw reg set <country_code>" command.
It doesnt give a damn who hears those nor can it decide who's receiving them or not.
This would again require revising the protocol itself.
Even hidden SSID's send out broadcast packets.
When attempting to connect an AP could indeed not allow it based on MAC.
That would not mean it being invisible to that specific hardware address.
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Nor do I think your MAC filtering theory holds up , the AP sends broadcasts out to whoever is listening.
It doesnt give a damn who hears those nor can it decide who's receiving them or not.
This would again require revising the protocol itself.
Even hidden SSID's send out broadcast packets.
When attempting to connect an AP could indeed not allow it based on MAC.
That would not mean it being invisible to that specific hardware address.
could maybe be that you dont have appletalk protocol installed/enabled? Also if your card doesnt support a standard and that standard is being used you wouldnt see it(ie if its a b card, and no b computers are on the network you wont see traffic). Only things i can think of if its on channel 6.That's right, I forgot about that. Although most AP's support multiple standards (a, b, g, n), it is possible to set it to only speak using one of them. This would effectively make it only appear on some devices, but not a specific device type.
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could maybe be that you dont have appletalk protocol installed/enabled? Also if your card doesnt support a standard and that standard is being used you wouldnt see it(ie if its a b card, and no b computers are on the network you wont see traffic). Only things i can think of if its on channel 6.
AirPort is the name given to a series of Apple products using the (Wi-Fi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi)) protocols (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_%28computing%29) (802.11b (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11b-1999), 802.11g (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11g-2003) and 802.11n (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11n-2009)).^Wikipedia
Darkvision, Snayler: I think thats what Factionwars wanted to say too :)No, he was just talking about different bands. You can have two AP's using the 2.4Ghz band (one in B mode and one in G mode) and if your adapter only supports B mode you will not see the AP functioning in G mode.