Hiya. I connect to the internet via a wireless LAN. I prefer to use dhcp and let the server assign an ip, etcetera. This is simple to do with OpenBSD. echo dhcp > hostname.device
The problem is the other networks in the area. When I boot, my wireless finds the first available (so it seems) access point available that will cough up anything and attach itself. Other than communicating with other WLAN operators and asking them to set MAC access control (if I can find out who they are) an option is to manually configure OpenBSD to use a specific gateway, etcetera. The problem with that is that many people use the same address for their server (perhaps the only private address space they know). Again I could specify a domain, however, the chances of this being duplicated are reasonable considering the number of WLAN's that are not public and also mainly Windows boxes (same goes for IP space). The way that we work it out is mainly through SSID. Generally we see the same WLAN's as the others and use the SSID to determine which network to attach to. Is it possible to specify an SSID to access at the exclusion of others? Otherwise, can anyone see a solution? Best wishes, David
