Retrieving past BSSID/MAC Addresses of AP's

[banana]

So apparently, one of the tenants in the building stole the wireless router from the common room. Before this happened, I was happily connected to the router and surfing the net. Now that it's missing, I would like to figure out who stole it.

Now I am giving them the benefit of the doubt that they would have the ounce of intellect required to change the SSID on the router as to not be able to be located easily. Because I have connected to the wireless router in the past, is the BSSID of the router stored somewhere in Vista in some type of log file?

I dug up a bunch of .xml files with network information in them, but i could only come up with the SSID, which isn't very helpful. My goal is to run INSSIDER to scan all networks in the building and attempt to match the BSSID of the stolen router with one currently in use. This seems like the only surefire way to nail the sucker.

So...any ideas of whether or not Vista logs BSSID's once you connect to a wireless network or does it only log the SSID and security mode?


Thanks

[mccoffee]

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr ... 66215.aspx well I will say it does log it somehwere it's probably in cache. This article very log read ,but your answer should be in there.

This link will show the commands on how to retrive the logs http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr ... 55301.aspx

[Alex Brown]

Each BSS is uniquely identified by a basic service set identification (BSSID). For a BSS operating in infrastructure mode, the BSSID is the MAC address of the wireless access point (WAP) generated by combining the 24 bit Organization Unique Identifier (OUI, the manufacturer's identity) and the manufacturer's assigned 24-bit identifier for the radio chipset in the WAP. The BSSID is the formal name of the BSS and is always associated with only one BSS.
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