Orinoco MAC address filtering

Josh Howlett Josh.Howlett at bristol.ac.uk
Thu Aug 23 18:57:57 EST 2001


On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Jaakko Isomursu wrote:

> Orinoco AP-1000 provides MAC address filtering as a additional security
> method.
> Is there any known way to bypass Orinoco's MAC address filtering for example
> by duplicating WLAN-cards MAC address?

This is trivial with linux.

> When WEP is allmost useless, would this provide some security?

None, sorry.

josh.

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