On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 06:20 -0700, Joerg Pommnitz wrote: > > WHY is it required for you? And yeah, I _am_ still opposed > > to that. > > Please don't laugh! Really, don't! > > We have an embedded system that normally uses an IBSS network > as a delivery system (can be deployed for field measurements). > Some customers were unhappy that the networks could be detected > on WLAN snoopers like Netstumbler. The quick and dirty solution > to make the networks invisible was using the AH-demo mode. > > Now "invisible on Netstumbler" is an advertised feature that > must be maintained for ever after (the GUI has a checkbox > "hide from Netstumbler"). Ok ... I'll go improve netstumbler instead of laughing ... if there's any traffic it can trivially be detected anyway, so what's the point? Hidden SSID is a hack (which doesn't work with IBSS obviously), but this kinda seems worse. Seriously though, why should the upstream kernel support such bad design decisions...? :) johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
