From: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking
<b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org>
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Hiding the ad-hoc network
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 09:43:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53031D28.4000006@meshcoding.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACgQMV++TDB_HSdLmXR+GeVWGaVL9dPA7YmGV1F33Ahde0Q7bQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 18/02/14 09:41, Dirk van der Walt wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> Although not strictly Batman-adv related I was wondering if someone
> here knows how to 'hide' the Ad-hoc network of the mesh.
>
> Another person asked the same on the OpenWrt forum but no-one gave him
> a proper or clear answer:
>
> https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=44665
>
> I've managed to get hold of him and he said he still has no clear
> answer on this one.
>
"Hiding" means not broadcasting the SSID (like it can be configured for
AP mode) and this is not allowed by the current cfg/mac80211 kernel module.
It is quite out of the standard and requires some "hacks" that the
maintainers will probably never like.
Regards,
--
Antonio Quartulli
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-18 8:41 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Hiding the ad-hoc network Dirk van der Walt
2014-02-18 8:43 ` Antonio Quartulli [this message]
2014-02-18 17:11 ` cmsv
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