Some wireless questions.

[John Summerfied]

akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:

> 
> In system-config-network I can't see these various points and the one it
> homes in on , does not do DHCP and no one claims it. In other words, it
> does not correspond to any access point known to people in the
> building that I can find.

Sounds like someone needs to do an audit. Kismet (on Linux) and 
Netstumbler (Windows), preferably with a GPS, can do it. without GPS you 
can see what's around, with GPS you can know which door to knock on. 
 From my reading, it's not unknown for individuals or workgroups to 
acquire their own APs, and it's also perfectly possible for any PC to be 
configured as an AP.

At school where I work, all the APs have distinct names but the same WEP 
key (we've not yet implemented "good" security), so (on SUSE) I set the 
AP name to 'any' and let the card sort it out.



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John

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