Suggestions : Wireless Modem Access Point

Johan Almqvist johan-radiolan at almqvist.net
Wed Dec 12 21:29:06 EST 2001


* "Reynolds, Alfred" <Alfred.Reynolds at dsto.defence.gov.au> [011211 22:58]:
> WEP is secure for a given value of secure ;)
> While it is breakable it ain't trivial. For a typical load on a home network
> it would require a few hours of sniffing and then a few hours CPU time to
> crack. WEP would stop war driving and it would stop your neighbors
> accidentally using your AP. For web surfing its prolly cool. For shell
> sessions use ssh (but you do that already right?) IPSEC would be the best
> solution BUT its not trivial to implement. Perhaps it would be easier to
> lock down which MAC's can access the AP? 

ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:03:93:50:71:B0

The MAC address can be set from software...

-Johan
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Johan Almqvist
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