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

completely disabling the beacon is ... 'difficult' without f/w patches, 
I believe.

If/when you do, you'll find that power-save (PS) mode STAs are broken.


On Sunday, Oct 27, 2002, at 12:52 US/Central, Bob Keyes wrote:

> While Russell is correct, there are reasons to not beacon SSID. That 
> is,
> to keep junk out of the air. In a congested environment (like here in
> Cambridge) this can make a difference. At the least, set your beacon
> interval to something reasonable (2 per second is good).
>
> I think a patch to allow disabling the beacon would be a good idea.
>
> On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, 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.
>>
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