how to hide the accesspoint

[Bruno Randolf]

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hi chris!

it's not possible to completely hide an AP, it always sends beacons. hiding 
the ESSID is some kind of pseudo "security" mechanism to avoid it beeing 
shown in the list of available networks on some operation systems. sooner or 
later (when clients associate) sniffers like NetStubler and kismet will also 
be able to find out the ESSID...

bruno

On Wednesday 04 August 2004 18:08, Christian wrote:
> Hello Bruno,
>
>   thx a lot. Now it works. I had no clue what STA f/w means :)
>   But the problem all the same is. I changed the enh_sec to 3
>   but NetStumbler find the Accesspoint :( The AP is shown without an
>   SSID but it's in the NetStumbler list. I shut down the wlan,
>   changed the SSID for testing, and started it again but nothing chanced...
>
>   How can i hide the AP that it only "answer" when the client have the
>   right SSID. Is that possible?
>
> Thx
> Chris
>
> Wednesday, August 4, 2004, 4:28:17 PM, you wrote:
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> > you probably have an old version of the firmware.
> >
> >> enh_sec: "enhanced security" bitfield
> >>         0 = options disabled (default)
> >>         1 = hide SSID in beacon frames
> >>         2 = ignore clients configured with "ANY" (broadcast) SSID
> >>         (3 = both options)
> >>         Note! This requires STA f/w ver 1.6.3 or newer
> >
> > read this:      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > this means, you need at least STAtion firmware 1.6.3
> >
> > you can see which f/w you have with "hostap_diag wlan0"
> >
> > mine shows:
> > Host AP driver diagnostics information for 'wlan0'
> >
> > NICID: id=0x8013 v1.0.0 (PRISM II (2.5) Mini-PCI (SST parallel flash))
> > PRIID: id=0x0015 v1.1.1
> > STAID: id=0x001f v1.7.4 (station firmware)
> >
> > or you read the kernel log (dmesg)
> >
> > http://linux.junsun.net/intersil-prism/ may be helpful on how to upgrade
> > the firmware.
> >
> > bruno
> >
> > On Wednesday 04 August 2004 16:15, Christian wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>  when i try to hide the AP, i get the following error:
> >>  ------------
> >>  # ./prism2_param wlan0 enh_sec 1
> >>  Interface doesn't accept private ioctl...
> >>  prism2_param (8BE0): Operation not supported
> >>  #
> >>  ------------
> >>
> >>  What could this be? Is this feature not supported by my WLAN Card
> >>  (Netgear MA311)?
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