While Russell is correct, there are reasons to not beacon SSID. That is, to keep junk out of the air. In a congested environment (like here in Cambridge) this can make a difference. At the least, set your beacon interval to something reasonable (2 per second is good).
I think a patch to allow disabling the beacon would be a good idea. On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Russell Nelson wrote: > Toledo - Yahoo writes: > > Does anyone know if is possible configure a FreeBSD box as AP to not > > broacast SSID ? I have security reasons to make this. > > Security through obscurity only works in the short term. In this > case, about five minutes. When a client makes a connection, it will > have the SSID in its packet. You should doubt the reliability of > whoever told you to do this. > > -- > -russ nelson http://russnelson.com | > Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | businesses persuade > 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | governments coerce > Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
