This will not deter much of anything sneaky, as any card in monitor mode can still sniff all the traffic. Where this will help is isolating client at hot spots to make it harder for viruses to spread (which was my goal) since the clients are on their own network too.
Cheers, Cliff
On Dec 19, 2003, at 2:39 AM, Matt Peterson wrote:
--I've found a number of 'Hotspot-in-a-box' units have a feature marketed as 'inter-VLAN security'. Essentially, with this enabled, STA's only see traffic to the AP & back, not other STA's (associated to the same AP).
Funky indeed, 'security though obscurity'. I haven't broken out a 802.11 frame sniffer (yet), wondering how this is technically done and expierences deploying this? It would seem like all the Hotspot players would jump on this, as a "security" solution.
The most 'famous' box, seems to be Handspring's WSG-4000 (relabeled from
ZyXEL, DemarcTech, etc)
<http://www.handlink.com.tw/eng/products/hotspot/WSG4000/ products_hotspot_wsg4000.htm>.
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