Thanks to everyone who replied to this topic! Greg
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Chris Stradtman < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > >
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