Re: Broadcasting Off

Ronald Pijnacker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.prism54.user
Organization Philips Medical Systems - MIT - Development - A & T
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> I think you should play with the DOT11_OID_SSIDOVERRIDE oid. With it, 
> you should be able to broadcast a fake ssid.
> 
> ...And justice for all
> 
> NeCrOS wrote:
> >Is it possible ??? it's good security mesurement, turn off broadcasting 
> >option... Users don't know SSID, won't connected with it .

I've read an article that disabling broadcast might be bad for
throughput. And it's not much of a security measure either. Sniffing the
air is enough to detect other traffic. This will also reveal the SSID,
amongst other things.

Ronald.
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