From the course: Wireless Networking Essential Training
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Basic Service Set ID (BSSID)
From the course: Wireless Networking Essential Training
Basic Service Set ID (BSSID)
- [Instructor] We know that we can have multiple access points servicing the same wireless LAN with the same name. In other words, the same SSID. However, these different access points each have unique MAC addresses that are associated with that SSID. This MAC address is called the basic service set identifier, or BSSID. Now in this example on screen, the access point on the left has an all ones MAC address corresponding to the SSID of KWTRAIN. And the access point on the right, it's got the all twos MAC address, corresponding to the same SSID of KWTRAIN. And since the access points have unique MAC addresses for the same SSID, our wireless clients can communicate with a specific access point, rather than just communicating with any access point that happens to answer to a specific SSID. This is going to allow our wireless clients to roam between access points. For example, as a wireless client roams from access point one…
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