about nwid and essid

[David Gibson]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 10:34:30PM +0100, Giulio Orsero wrote:
> I read iwconfig man page, then 
> http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.Extensions.html
> and scanned list archive.
> 
> I could not find a clear explanaton on why I would want to set nwid
> different from essid, and if I'd want to set them at all (and not leave
> autodetection do the work).

nwid has no effect on most 802.11 cards - it's mostly relevant for
older pre-802.11 wireless cards which had a somewhat different notion
of network IDs.

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