Peter.Memishian at Sun.COM wrote: > > While you might be able to reduce the space required for either one, I'd > > first toss the BSSID from the default output for scan-wifi. Sacrilege > > to us networking professionals, I'm sure, but to the average user, it's > > just a bunch of numbers that don't have meaning, and it's over 20% of > > your output "budget". > > I'm wary of doing that -- I know a lot of people leave their ESSID's set > to the default value, leaving the BSSID as an increasingly necessary > discriminator. Even though one could (and should) use "-o bssid" to see > the BSSID at that point, I think the more likely reaction is to presume > that there's a bug afoot. >
You and I seem to have very different views of what an average user might find useful, I guess. I don't recall other platforms I've used making the BSSID a particularly prominent piece of their display, but then it's been a while since I've looked. Dave
