In message <x7hewsyquz.fsf@capsicum.wsrcc.com>, Wolfgang Rupprecht writes:
>
>mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca (Michael Richardson) writes:
>>   The other challenge was that I was unable to find a quoting for
>> dhclient.conf's media statement that successfully set an IBSS NETNAME
>> that had a space. (E.g. "NetBSD IBBS")
>>   I wound up setting both to "NetBSD"...
>
>I've been meaning to ask this for a while.  Wouldn't it be better if
>the kernel default for an(4) and wi(4) was "ANY"?  That string appears
>to be a magic wildcard value to the card's firmware where with card
>will peer up with any other SSID.  Putting "NetBSD IBSS" in there is
>an amusing way to advertise one's OS, but it does little for
>interoperability.
>

It probably doesn't matter.  The IBSS string is important when your 
machine is the base station.  The current default network name (at 
least for wi4), of "", is indeed the desired wildcard.  (There are 
reports that that should be "ANY", but it works for me as is.)



		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb