On Tue, Jun 24, 2008, Daniel Morrison wrote: > I have never understood that whole "don't broadcast your ESSID" thing. > > Security by obscurity, surely?
I had one place in dim memory that implemented that specifically so arbitrary devices wouldn't associate-by-passing and tie up valuable slots on their WAP. Read, too many associations, AP blows up.. Adrian -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support - - $25/pm entry-level VPSes w/ capped bandwidth charges available in WA - -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
