This is a common "feature" available under almost all of the enterprise market APs / wireless switch systems. I would hazard a guess that there are probably several hundred thousand APs in the world that already have this turned on and running. Although I would also guess that in many cases the person operating the wireless devices has no real idea of what it's doing. It's just a knob that turned on because it was there ;-)
Chris On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Greg Ihnen <[email protected]> wrote: > There's a current debate raging right now on the NANOG list about the ins > and outs of setting up large temporary networks for things like conventions. > > This one post caught my attention. Has anyone heard of a WiFi AP that will > spoof neighboring networks to intentionally interfere with them, not by > occupying/jamming the spectrum in a brute force way, but rather by > impersonating the other network and rejecting new associations? > > The quote: > > > One of which I forgot to mention. Many of the hotels (I believe all > > Hilton properties at this time) have sold the facilities space for their > > wifi network to another company. They CAN'T negotiate it with you, > > because they don't own it any more. And most of these wifi networks have > > stealth killers enabled, so that they spoof any other wifi zone they see > > and send back reject messages to the clients. So you can't run them side > > by side. > > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > >
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