No Broacast, no connection! (network manager issue)

[Ricardo C O Freitas]

On Tuesday 13 February 2007 17:46, Jeffrey F. Bloss wrote:
> Ricardo C O Freitas wrote:
> > Hi there!
> >
> > I have an atheros  pci card on a 6.06 Ubuntu desktop here.
> >
> > When I cancel the ESSID broacasting (for safety reasons), I can't get
> > the card connected!
>
> There's no real reason to disable ESSID broadcasts. Your WAP is still
> visible to the world, it will still hand out that information if asked
> properly, and since ESSID is sent in the clear even with WEP/WPA
> enabled anyone with a "sniffer" can see it when someone who already
> knows it connects. So you're really not hiding anything at all from
> anyone who would benefit from knowing it.
>
> The same  more or less applies to MAC address filtering too, BTW.
> Trivial to discover, and even more trivial to spoof.
>
> The alternative is to track down every place where you might need to
> "hard wire" your network ID and do so. That would include
> your /etc/network/interfaces, wpa_supplicant.conf file if you're
> using supplicant, any "connection manager" configurations that might
> store that information, etc...

Thanks for the input!

Every hacking is possible when you want so!
SSID on again!

TKS

Ricardo

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