Basic Service Set Identification - MAC address of an Wireless Access Point.

By design, unique 48-bit ID for identifying different radio chipsets used in variety of Wireless Access Points. Also known as mac-address, only strictly bind to WAP chipsets.

With 802.11 standard it might be a mac-address of client devices settuping an ad-hoc network.

BSSID usually is generated using:

  • 24-bit Organization Unique Identifier (OUI, usually an ID of the manufactorer)
  • 24-bit identifier given by manufactorer

Common way to write it down:HH:HH:HH:HH:HH:HH, there H - any hexadecimal number.

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