On 2018 Nov 02 (Fri) at 12:03:55 -0400 (-0400), AB wrote: :I see in ifconfig(8) that setting nwid to an empty string will :connect to any available AP. When using join, and absent any nwid :statement at all, is nwid set to an empty string? Or is it null? :
At boot, nwid is set to empty string "". When you use join, nwid is left as an empty string. When join connects to a network, then nwid is set to that network, and no longer has the empty string behaviour. -- Any philosophy that can be put "in a nutshell" belongs there. -- Sydney J. Harris