completely disabling the beacon is ... 'difficult' without f/w patches, I believe.
If/when you do, you'll find that power-save (PS) mode STAs are broken.
On Sunday, Oct 27, 2002, at 12:52 US/Central, Bob Keyes wrote:
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
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