Re: [BAWUG] FreeBSD box as Acess Point without SSID broadcast

On Friday, October 25, 2002, at 07:11 PM, Russell Nelson wrote:

> Toledo - Yahoo writes:
>> Does anyone know if is possible configure a FreeBSD box as AP to not
>> broacast SSID ? I have security reasons to make this.
>
> Security through obscurity only works in the short term.  In this
> case, about five minutes.  When a client makes a connection, it will
> have the SSID in its packet.  You should doubt the reliability of
> whoever told you to do this.

it doesn't take 5 minutes.   Sniff, find one transmission, send a 
disassociate msg to the STA, wait for it to
attempt to associate, take a look at the SSID.


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