> On 3 October 2014 03:26, Julian H. Stacey <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 2 October 2014 16:30, Julian H. Stacey <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28891937 > >> > "smartphones and tablets regularly broadcast the SSIDs (service set > >> > identifiers), or names, of those networks. " > >> > > >> > Does FreeBSD also periodically transmit all SSIDs its knows of ? > > > > Adrian Chadd wrote: > >> Depends if wpa_supplicant is configured to do active scanning or not. > >> -a > > > > Sorry, I don't understand ? On latest current: > > > > man wpa_supplicant has no '-a' > > & There is no word `active` in man wpa_supplicant.conf > > > > I see with default scan_ssid=0 FreeBSD sends a broadcast Probe Request > > frame. > > If some network blocks within a wpa_supplicant.conf have > > scan_ssid=1 > > then does FreeBSD actively sequence through sending > > directed Probe Request frames with known net names ? > > > > Or are you refering to > > ap_scan > > or some other command ?
Adrian Chadd top posted: > I believe it only does it when you set scan_ssid=1. OK, Thanks. I submitted a draft caution for the manual. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Linux Unix C Sys Eng Consultant Munich http://berklix.com Indent previous with "> ". Interleave reply paragraphs like a play script. Send plain text, not quoted-printable, HTML, base64, or multipart/alternative. ShellShock - http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/bash/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
