Does FreeBSD periodically transmit all SSIDs its knows of ?

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Thu Oct 2 23:38:50 UTC 2014


Depends if wpa_supplicant is configured to do active scanning or not.


-a

On 2 October 2014 16:30, Julian H. Stacey <jhs at berklix.com> wrote:
> http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28891937
> "smartphones and tablets regularly broadcast the SSIDs (service set
> identifiers), or names, of those networks. "
>
> Does FreeBSD also periodically transmit all SSIDs its knows of ?
>
> Cheers,
> Julian
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