Re: Wireless interface says privacy OFF

2009-12-22 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 12/22/09, Steven Friedrich free...@insightbb.com wrote: What does privacy mean and why isn't it explained in any man page? Here's my ifconfig: wlan0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:14:a5:2a:a5:db inet 192.168.2.254 netmask

Wireless interface says privacy OFF

2009-12-21 Thread Steven Friedrich
What does privacy mean and why isn't it explained in any man page? Here's my ifconfig: wlan0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:14:a5:2a:a5:db inet 192.168.2.254 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255 media: IEEE 802.11