During passive wireless reconnaissance with airodump-ng, you capture 802.11 management frames from a target network. Which specific management frame type periodically advertises the access point's SSID, supported rates, and security capabilities to nearby stations so they can initiate an association?
Beacon frames are transmitted at regular intervals by an access point and contain the network's SSID, capability information, supported data rates, security (RSN) information elements, and other parameters. Stations listen for these beacons to learn what networks are available and to decide which one to join. Probe Request frames originate from clients that are searching for networks, not from the AP. Authentication frames are exchanged only after a client has chosen an AP and wishes to begin the authentication process, and RTS is a control frame used for collision avoidance, not for network advertisement.
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