From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Apr 25 17:33:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (mta7.pltn13.pbi.net [64.164.98.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8A6C37B417 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 17:33:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pacbell.net ([63.193.114.253]) by mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with ESMTP id <0GV500AUHG7N94@mta7.pltn13.pbi.net> for freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 17:33:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 17:29:14 -0700 From: Thomas Skibo Subject: Re: host AP and shared authentication mode To: Tony Saign Cc: 'FreeBSD Mobile' Message-id: <3CC89F5A.79E0E071@pacbell.net> Organization: College Avenue Surf Shop MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en References: <000001c1ecae$0854e2d0$1e02a8c0@frankenmobl> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tony Saign wrote: > > This works AWESOME! > > 128-bit WEP is working, others are unable to connect without encryption > :) Cool! > Is there any way to "close" it, so the ssid isn't visible to > dstumbler/netstumbler?? I looked into this. I can't seem to find a way to disable beacons and probe responses. They're handled by the Prism 2 firmware when port type is 6 (host AP). I wish there was a way to disable them and just manually do beacons and probes in the kernel so we could ignore probe requests with unspecified ssid and optionally disable beacons. I know that more than a few people want this feature. There is a documented "enhanced security" option which can disable beacons and ignore unspecified-SSID probe requests but it seems to only be a feature of the AP firmware (in which ALL the AP functions are handled in the Prism firmware-- I believe this is an extra-cost feature licensed to AP manufacturers). I tried enabling it and the firmware keeps rejecting the request. Maybe I should put in a request to Intersil support to see if it's just something I'm doing wrong. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ skibo@ Thomas pacbell.net Skibo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message