[ILUG] IOL Broadband handing over information.

Cian Cullinan cian.cullinan at gmail.com
Thu Jun 9 13:25:44 IST 2005


On 6/9/05, Paul Jakma <paul at clubi.ie> wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Cian Cullinan wrote:
> 
> > WPA + not broadcasting the ESSID? One could always physically
> 
> Oh, "not broadcasting ESSID" doesnt do much does it? It can still be
> recovered by watching traffic, no?
> 

Ah true, my card - ipw2200 - hasn't supported monitoring mode until
very recently so I've been limited to using iwlist for spotting
ESSID's, hence my misguided belief that not broadcasting them was
doing some good.

Cian



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