Does FreeBSD periodically transmit all SSIDs its knows of ?

[Julian H. Stacey]

> 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 ?

Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Depends if wpa_supplicant is configured to do active scanning or not.
> -a

Sorry, I don't understand ?  On latest current:

man wpa_supplicant has no '-a'
& There is no word `active` in man wpa_supplicant.conf

I see with default scan_ssid=0 FreeBSD sends a broadcast Probe Request frame.
If some network blocks within a wpa_supplicant.conf have 
	scan_ssid=1
then does FreeBSD actively sequence through sending
directed Probe Request frames with known net names ?

Or are you refering to
	ap_scan
or some other command ?

Cheers,
Julian
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