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meulie
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 Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 7:21 pm Post subject: Ending up on the AP of the neighbor with dhcp... |
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Hi all!
Both me and my neighbour have wireless AP's. When I give a | Code: | | /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start |
(configured to use DHCP) I always end up on the AP of the neighbour... How do I force the script to ignore that AP and/or only use my AP...?
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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meulie,
You BOTH should set up some encryption. You are wide open to a drive by hacking.
Ensure you both set your APs to different channels too, or you will get collissions which reduce the effective bandwidth.
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meulie
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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Well, he wants to leave his wide open (his choice, and it enables me to use it as backup...) but I am planning on enabling WPA on mine. Haven't quite gotten that to work with my bcm4306/ndiswrapper though... For the time being I use MAC-checking to keep unwanted people out.
But how do I tell my laptop to FIRST try my own AP (and if that one is down maybe the neighbour's)...?
Anything I can set in /etc/conf.d/net ?
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| Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 9:43 am Post subject: |
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| preferred_aps=( "essid-of-ap" ) |
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meulie
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| Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 9:58 am Post subject: |
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Does that go in /etc/conf.d/wirelress or /etc/conf.d/net? 
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| Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 10:21 am Post subject: |
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We may depreciate /etc/conf.d/wireless at some point, so /etc/conf.d/net is preferred really |
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meulie
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| Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:00 am Post subject: |
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OK, I've added | Code: | | preferred_aps_wlan0=( "my_essid_at_home", "my_essid_at_work" ) |
Is there also an option for the opposite, like forbidden_aps_wlan0=("essid_of_neighbor") ? 
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meulie
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Since you're talking about maybe depreciating /etc/conf.d/wireless in the future, isn't it better to rename /etc/conf.d/wireless.example to /etc/conf.d/net.example ?
Thanks for the swift help! 
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| meulie wrote: | | Since you're talking about maybe depreciating /etc/conf.d/wireless in the future, isn't it better to rename /etc/conf.d/wireless.example to /etc/conf.d/net.example ? |
We already have a net.example, but yes, we would attach wireless.example to net.example |
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