Let's investigate by using another utility from the aircrack suite, airodump-ng, as follows:
By providing the airodump-ng wlan0mon command, starts sniffing the wireless networks around us while continually hopping to different channels. This will give us a list containing the numerous wireless networks that are available in the vicinity. The list in the upper half of the screen displays wireless access points that have a BSSID (MAC address of the access point) and an ESSID (name of the network) and many other details. The bottom half of the screenshot contains the stations which are nothing but the endpoint ...
