On 10/03/2014 04:26 PM, Hugo Slabbert wrote:
On Fri 2014-Oct-03 16:01:21 -0600, John Schiel <jsch...@flowtools.net>
wrote:
On 10/03/2014 03:23 PM, Keenan Tims wrote:
The question here is what is authorized and what is not. Was this
to protect their network from rogues, or protect revenue from
captive customers.
I can't imagine that any 'AP-squashing' packets are ever authorized,
outside of a lab. The wireless spectrum is shared by all, regardless of
physical locality. Because it's your building doesn't mean you own the
spectrum.
+1
My reading of this is that these features are illegal, period. Rogue AP
detection is one thing, and disabling them via network or
"administrative" (ie. eject the guest) means would be fine, but
interfering with the wireless is not acceptable per the FCC
regulations.
Seems like common sense to me. If the FCC considers this
'interference',
which it apparently does, then devices MUST NOT intentionally
interfere.
I would expect interfering for defensive purposes **only** would be
acceptable.
What constitutes "defensive purposes"?
Whoa, lots of replies this weekend.
I haven't made my way through all of them but the point was to try and
protect your network from an offensive device. It seems though, if you
are law abiding and follow the FCC rules, you **cannot** protect
yourself very well using the wireless spectrum. Need to do some more
reading I guess.
--John
--John
K
