From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Apr 25 18:35:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from firehouse.net (dsl-64-130-18-61.telocity.com [64.130.18.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D381037B41A for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 18:35:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 960 invoked by uid 85); 26 Apr 2002 01:35:27 -0000 Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 21:35:25 -0400 From: Alan Clegg To: 'FreeBSD Mobile' Subject: Re: host AP and shared authentication mode Message-ID: <20020425213525.B499@shell.wetworks.org> References: <000001c1ecae$0854e2d0$1e02a8c0@frankenmobl> <3CC89F5A.79E0E071@pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="hHWLQfXTYDoKhP50" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3CC89F5A.79E0E071@pacbell.net>; from skibo@pacbell.net on Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 05:29:14PM -0700 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 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 --hHWLQfXTYDoKhP50 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Unless the network is lying to me again, Thomas Skibo said:=20 > Tony Saign wrote: > > Is there any way to "close" it, so the ssid isn't visible to > > dstumbler/netstumbler?? >=20 > I looked into this. [...] For those that care, even a "closed" access point will be seen by dstumbler in monitor (prism2) mode. The problem is that as soon as a node associates with the AP, the two devices chatter back and forth revealing the SSID constantly. Closed is great, as long as you aren't=20 talking. =20 Just like WEP... it's wired equivalent as long as you don't transmit any data. AlanC --hHWLQfXTYDoKhP50 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8yK7dyJP8xSfQVdsRApxmAKCi/kq3VVSssnJAozfT3NH5pEoKOgCgw++O 8SoUu8om7JIKvYXrwUrVhmw= =uWzD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hHWLQfXTYDoKhP50-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message