Deliberate mixing of ad-hoc and infrastructure based networking on the same SSID is probably not good practice. People configuring machines as ad-hoc with the same SSID and passphrase is something the network managers can do little about, and I would regard this as a potential security weakness in some contexts (might also have a negative effect on overall network performance).
That's what I thought. It's a security issue as well.
I think main problem is that joe/jill user just thinks that putting together a network or connecting to a network is like plugging in telephones to sockets in a walls. Unfortunately, however much you dress it up behind nice fancy GUIs it aint. Even more problematic are non-technical managers in organisations who think the same way.
Yes, well you are right but what to do if you need to use this network? It's a library and they set it up with keys, I think, for convenience of their users. If they wouldn't hide SSID the problem wouldn't occur. They take it for an security advantage, I guess. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org