Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 09:03:10 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: wpa_supplicant && associates to unknown AP Message-ID: <20090301080310.GA3186@rebelion.Sisis.de>
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Hello,
This lonely Sunday morning I've switched on my laptop at home and while
it was booting I went to breakfast; coming back I found that I could not
connect to Internet because it associated to a unknown foreign AP in my
area (ssid ALICE-WLAN). I'm running wpa_supplicant and of course
this is not in my /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file. My AP is ssid tarara
and the entry in wpa_supplicant.conf is:
network={
ssid="tarara"
scan_ssid=0
key_mgmt=NONE
wep_tx_keyidx=0
wep_key0=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
}
I killed the wpa_supplicant and restarted it, see below the ifconfig
output, and it then associated fine to my AP. How is this possible?
And what can I do to prevent this?
Thx
# ifconfig iwi0
iwi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
ether 00:13:ce:a1:e6:81
inet 192.168.2.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
status: associated
ssid ALICE-WLAN channel 11 (2462 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:1b:9e:ff:61:0b
authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 wepkey 1:40-bit bmiss 10
scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11g 7
roam:rate11g 5 protmode CTS roaming MANUAL
(killing wpa_supplicant)
# ifconfig iwi0
iwi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
ether 00:13:ce:a1:e6:81
inet 192.168.2.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/2Mbps)
status: associated
ssid tarara channel 7 (2442 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:13:f7:0d:08:48
authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 wepkey 1:40-bit bmiss 10
scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11g 7
roam:rate11g 5 protmode CTS roaming MANUAL
# ifconfig iwi0 list scan
SSID BSSID CHAN RATE S:N INT CAPS
ALICE-WLAN 00:1b:9e:ff:61:0b 11 54M 18:0 100 EP
tarara 00:13:f7:0d:08:48 7 54M 39:0 100 EPS
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Matthias Apitz
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