Determining SSID from BSSID

Applying the command netsh wlan show all in windows would show details of all the routers including the BSSID in your wireless range, even though you might not have been connected to the router.

You can get all the BSSID you have around with this command: netsh wlan show networks mode=bssid.

in cmd: netsh wlan show networks mode=Bssid (Windows 7).

In windows ,you can use this cammand "netsh wlan show networks mode=Bssid|findstr "BSSID" " as the post in https://stackoverflow.com/a/187867/1767800.

For Mac OS and macOS that's /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport -I for the currently connected wifi, which you can also get by alt+click on the wifi menu.

To get a list of all hotspots/network available use /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport -s.

If you have Linux and iwlist package you can use iwlist YOUR_INTERFACE scan where YOUR_INTERFACE have to be an active wireless interface, typically wlan0.

And yes, a router working as an AP (it is the more common configuration) will send his BSSID.

sudo iwlist scanning or filter(Address): sudo iwlist scanning | grep Address.

All the software listed above show the detected BSSIDs and many other information to you by catching the beacon frame broadcast by the Access Point.

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Kali comes with NetworkManager, so you can nmcli -f NAME,SSID,SSID-HEX,BSSID,MODE,CHAN,FREQ,RATE,SIGNAL,BARS,SECURITY,WPA-FLAGS,RSN-FLAGS,DEVICE,ACTIVE,IN-USE,DBUS-PATH device wifi.

Or just nmcli device wifi.

or iwlist wlp2s0 scanning,

but since commands from net-tools and wireless-tools packages seem to be deprecated in Linux you could try to get familiar with the modern iw from iproute2 package: iw dev wlp2s0 scan dump.

Related: Difference between essid, bssid and ssid in commands.

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The following works on my Sequoia v15.3 system to output the SSID using the Zsh shell.

It gets a sorted list of the en0 - en9 interfaces and performs an ipconfig getsummary on each.

Finally, it finds the SSID (that leading space is deliberate) string in the getsummary output and prints it.

Failed matches are discarded to dev/null.

for i in ${(o)$(ifconfig -lX "en[0-9]")};do ipconfig getsummary ${i} | awk '/ SSID/ {print $NF}';done 2> /dev/null

The wdutil info output shows <redacted> for both SSID and BSSID on my system.

I am using WPA3 security and that may have something to do with the redaction.

A Zsh script that will also work (once made executable) if one's shell is Bash follows:#!/bin/zsh for i in ${(o)$(ifconfig -lX "en[0-9]")}; do ipconfig getsummary ${i} | awk '/ SSID/ {print $NF}' done 2> /dev/null exit 0