On Jun 22, 2004, at 10:47 AM, Chet Harvey wrote:

> hmmmm since you are PC based, simplest would be to add a nic card just 
> to
> configure then take it back out....

That's what I am doing.  The problem is though how do I connect to the 
administration after I take that card out?  I can't seem to get in 
through the WAN IP or the wireless IP when the original NIC is 
disconnected.


> or wont giving the WLAN an IP and then
> configuring your client with the next IP allow them to talk regardless 
> of SSID
> since no WEP is enabled yet?
>

That makes sense but can I still configure later on?

> the SSID should be the FreeBSD default of basically nothing.
>

It is nothing by default.  Maybe it would good if monowall could give 
unconfigured wireless cards a random SSID by default so they can be 
connected to once they are configured as the "LAN" interface.

> What does netstumbler see as the ssid?
>

iStumbler (which I assume is similar) doesn't show the card at all if 
its not configured.  Part of the configuration is to turn on SSID 
braodcast I assume.  So by default that would be off.

Thanks,
Michael