correct. More specific to how 802.11 works is: passive: listen for beacons active: send out probe request, collect responses.
Robi writes: > > On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Timolthy Keithy wrote: > > What is different between Passive Scan and Active > > Scan? > > Passive means that you are just listening without making your presence > known. > > Active means that you're sending out signals and seeing who replies or > echoes back, which makes your presence known. > > -- Robi > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > -- "Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure." -- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963) -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
