Lab Objective:
Learn how to prevent your SSID from being advertised.
Lab Purpose:
Wireless networks are vulnerable to hacking. One of the easiest ways to protect it is to prevent your SSID from being advertised.
Lab Tool:
Packet Tracer
Lab Topology:
Please use the following topology to complete this lab exercise:
Lab Walkthrough:
Task 1:
Drag a laptop and WRT300N router to the canvass.
Add a wireless card to the laptop. You did this in earlier labs.
Task 2:
Click on the ‘PC Wireless’ icon on the laptop.
Click on ‘Connect’ and then ‘Refresh’ to see the SSID being broadcast by the wireless router. The SSID name is ‘Default’.
Task 3:
On the Wireless router, click on ‘GUI – Wireless’ and note that the SSID is set to broadcast. You can see the name is set to ‘Default’.
Task 4:
Change the SSID to ‘101Labs’ and tick the ‘Disabled’ radio button for SSID broadcast.
Task 5:
The laptop will have lost connection. Click on the ‘Refresh’ button but no SSID will appear.
Task 6:
This adaptor doesn’t have the option to manually enter a SSID, but you can go back to the router and enable SSID broadcast if you want to check for the new name.
Notes:
