| Author |
Message |
|
 Posted:
Sat Aug 06, 2005 6:14 am
|
|
|
Forum Sniper
Joined: 06 Dec 2004
Posts: 748
Location: LI, NY
|
|
Started in the afk for a few days thread
=====
From PCWEBOPEDIA.COM
Short for service set identifier, a 32-character unique identifier attached to the header of packets sent over a WLAN that acts as a password when a mobile device tries to connect to the BSS (read: network). The SSID differentiates one WLAN from another, so all access points and all devices attempting to connect to a specific WLAN must use the same SSID. A device will not be permitted to join the BSS unless it can provide the unique SSID. Because an SSID can be sniffed in plain text from a packet it does not supply any security to the network.
An SSID is also referred to as a network name because essentially it is a name that identifies a wireless network.
=====
Basically, it's the most important piece of information required to attach to a wireless network. When you set up the access point you are offered the option to broadcast this ID or turn it off. If you're looking to increase the security of your Wireless network, you turn it off to keep away drive by's like Kibbles and me. However, because the SSID is in clear text, if you have a wireless sniffer like Netstumbler you can pick it up, enter it into your OS and off you go.
As far as OS's go, Win2K had no native capablility to view broadcast SSID's, but XP includes that "available wireless networks" screen. Again, if the access point you're in range of supresses SSID B'cast (as it should), you'd see nothing.
Moral of the story: Get Netstumbler and surf for free when traveling. But don't be a dick. If you have to ask what that means, please don't download the tool. |
_________________
What other server let's you do stuff like this?? -Chips
-[CfH]-Server Admin |
|
|
|
 |
|
| Posted:
Sat Aug 06, 2005 4:22 pm
|
|
|
Forum H4xor
Joined: 25 Nov 2004
Posts: 1269
Location: sacramento ca
|
|
if anyone is in/near Galt California, open up a wireless enabled laptop and wander around the raleys shoping center on twin cities road.
you will see a wireless signal "Softcom_WiFi_call....." all over the neighborhood around there is like-named wifi signals.
i can drive down a main street there and maintain a wifi connection across signals(nodes) because they all have the same name and can maintain a wifi in the car... voip carphone anyone  |
_________________
Albert Einstein once said “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.”
-[CfH]-Server Admin
Hanlon's Razor. Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. |
|
|
|
|
|
| Posted:
Sat Aug 06, 2005 10:46 pm
|
|
|
Forum H4xor
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
Posts: 1922
Location: eugene,OR
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Posted:
Sun Aug 07, 2005 1:14 am
|
|
|
Forum H4xor
Joined: 25 Nov 2004
Posts: 1269
Location: sacramento ca
|
|
sorry, requires a $25/month softcom user account... which i get at employee rates.
kiss off car dealerships w/ their "pay what we pay" crap, i pay zip! |
_________________
Albert Einstein once said “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.”
-[CfH]-Server Admin
Hanlon's Razor. Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. |
|
|
|
|
|
| Posted:
Sun Aug 07, 2005 7:58 pm
|
|
|
Forum H4xor
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
Posts: 1922
Location: eugene,OR
|
|
thats ok im at some rest stop right now with free net so bleh i dont need yours!!!  |
_________________
www.GuildWarsRealm.net GG site |
|
|
|
|
|
