[DragonFlyBSD - Bug #3367] ifconfig wlan0 lscan does not exists

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Sat Aug 10 10:32:55 PDT 2024


Issue #3367 has been updated by mneumann.


daftaupe wrote in #note-1:
> So should we update the manual page first ? So that lscan appears as a suboption of the list command ?
> Or should we try to change the behaviour of the scan command ?

I think it'd make more sense to fix this properly. FreeBSD has

ifconfig wlan0 list scan

and with -v flag, it enables display of long SSIDs:
 
ifconfig wlan0 list scan -v

This is IMHO more intuitive.



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Bug #3367: ifconfig wlan0 lscan does not exists
http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issues/3367#change-14562

* Author: mneumann
* Status: New
* Priority: Normal
* Category: Networking
* Target version: 6.6
* Start date: 2024-04-18
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The man page for ifconfig states that "lscan" is "a variant of scan that displays long SSIDs". But it does not exist:

    $ ifconfig wlan0 lscan
    ifconfig: lscan: bad value


What works is:

    $ ifconfig wlan0 list lscan

AFAIK, FreeBSD defaults to showing long SSIDs, which IMHO is more intuitive and useful.



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