Wireless network (WEP security)

[Charly Baker]

On Tuesday 30 September 2003 2:30 pm, WK wrote:
> Gardner Bell wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > What measures have others here taken to secure their wireless networks if
> > any of you have them and what specific hardware would you recommend?  Any
> > other info that you could provide would be greatly beneficial.
>
> I have a SMC wireless router which I use it as access point.
>
> - I enabled the 128bit wep and filter client by MAC.
> - At my linux firewall, I blocks any unknown internal addresses
> - At my linux firewall, I blocks all outgoing traffic to the internal
> network as well as internet except DHCP and PPTP (vpn).
>
> In order to connect a wireless client to my network, the following are
> needed:
>
> - Add a reserve host to dhcp server
> - Unblock the reserve host ip at the firewall
> - Create an account on the the pptp server

Or they could just spoof your card's mac address.

Charly Baker
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