On debian sarge and with a wifi PCI card atheros.
I have an AP that doesn't send the ssid broadcast.
when I use # wpa_supplicant -iath0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -ddK -Dmadwifi
I see these lines:
8On debian sarge and with a wifi PCI card atheros.
I have an AP that doesn't send the ssid broadcast.
when I use # wpa_supplicant -iath0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -ddK -Dmadwifi
I see these lines:
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reason: hide the ap
You can't really hide the AP. You can make it more difficult for normal connections. SSID hiding provides no security advantage.
Lookup "active scanning"; you can't really hide the AP.
Can U send me a link about the 'active scanning' ? You say that a user could discover my wifi-network if I don't broadcast the ssid ?
In general you'd do well to ignore advice from any web page that still gives instructions for setting up wep. At best its back from the days when wep was still treated as a somewhat worthwhile method of securing one's wifi. It really should be treated more like a rot-13 these days. It keeps you from inadvertently seeing something you really didn't want to see.
-wolfgang
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