[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 
>  > 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.

Instead of forcing users to select particular fields to print, which I
think is a bit much for a simple status command, why not have BSSID
and other less-commonly-needed details printed only when a "verbose"
flag is set?

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James Carlson, KISS Network                    <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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