choose to not engage with AP's which do
> not broadcast the SSID (and this is allowed by the 802.11 spec .. tho
> the wording is dodgy and I'd bow to Tim Smith as a real expert).
If you think that wording is dodgy, you try getting your head round Block
ACK :-)
wpa_supplicant supp
> On Mon May 30 2011, Rick Sewill wrote:
> > On Monday, May 30, 2011 07:08:14 AM John Aldrich wrote:
> > > > On Sunday, May 29, 2011 10:59:42 PM John Aldrich wrote:
> > > Ok... I put the info you had in your local.conf file WRT audio, except
> > > for the USB as I don't have any USB audio. I'm temp
> On Tue, 24 May 2011 19:52:32 -0400
> Tom Horsley wrote:
>
> > if I
> > right click the network icon and look at connections,
> > it shows a wireless connection, and even knows the
> > MAC address but it says it is Disconnected
>
> OK, I tried some stuff and found an answer: Apparently
> NM in f
On Tuesday 24 May 2011 00:00:47 JD wrote:
> On 05/23/11 15:41, Tim Smith wrote:
> > On Monday 23 May 2011 22:26:49 JD wrote:
> >> On 05/23/11 12:22, Tim Smith wrote:
> >>> On Monday 23 May 2011 17:50:50 JD wrote:
> >>>> On 05/23/11 09:28, Tim Smith wrot
On Monday 23 May 2011 22:26:49 JD wrote:
> On 05/23/11 12:22, Tim Smith wrote:
> > On Monday 23 May 2011 17:50:50 JD wrote:
> >> On 05/23/11 09:28, Tim Smith wrote:
> >>> On Monday 23 May 2011 16:36:00 Tim wrote:
> >>> Not really. This is SSID, not BSSID
On Monday 23 May 2011 18:08:15 Genes MailLists wrote:
> On 05/23/2011 12:18 PM, Tim Smith wrote:
> > When it talks about SSID IEs, however, it isn't mentioning Probe Response
> > or Beacon explicity, but uses the weasel phrase "or that do not
> > advertise an auth
On Monday 23 May 2011 17:50:50 JD wrote:
> On 05/23/11 09:28, Tim Smith wrote:
> > On Monday 23 May 2011 16:36:00 Tim wrote:
> > Not really. This is SSID, not BSSID (BSSID is usually the MAC of the AP).
> > When you scan, you not only listen for beacons, but you (should) se
On Monday 23 May 2011 16:36:00 Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 13:58 +0100, Tim Smith wrote:
> > One problem lies in the fact that 802.11 does not specify a particular
> > means of giving a NULL SSID so different APs do it in different ways.
> > Some give a zero-length SS
On Monday 23 May 2011 16:03:42 Genes MailLists wrote:
> (sorry I lost the threading info ... )
>
> > Time Smith wrote:
>
> > Late to the party, but just for useful information, disabling SSID
> > broadcast is NOT a violation of of 802.11 :-) It's mandatory to put
> > the SSID information element
On Wednesday 18 May 2011 04:52:47 Genes MailLists wrote:
> On 05/17/2011 12:36 PM, Frank Murphy wrote:
> > Also if it's your home wLan, hide it, don't broadcast the ssid.
> > So those in your neighbourhood won't even know you have a wireless.
>
> As many have pointed out - you should not disable
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