Re: non-beaconing access points

2005-08-08 Thread Dan Williams
tion +connection+DHCP process. That, however, took around 20s to complete in the best scenarios, and longer in the worst ones. So the code got removed. That may have helped out here. The only way to connect to non-broadcasting/non-beaconing access points is to essentially know all the connection detai

non-beaconing access points

2005-08-08 Thread Bill Moss
Until a few days ago, I had never heard of a non-beaconing access point (AP). A friend of mine has a NetGear MR814v2 and when you hide the ESSID, you don't just blank the ESSID in the beacon packet, you stop transmitting beacon packets. This is an area not covered by the 802.11 standard. In the