enable hw mac addresses in wireless router

[James Knott]

Teddy Mills wrote:
>
> Got a Wireless WRT310N router.
>
> Having problems setting Ubuntu laptop via WPA2 with TKIP/AES.
> spent hours, on this
> can only get 1Mbits 802.11b connection. (100% it is a g-chip)
> (old story of proprietary firmware from BroadCom drivers etc etc)
>
> So I says...why dont I just disable all wireless security.
> then enable just the hardware MAC address to enable only my computers
> to connect.
>
> Just as secure as before, right?

Wrong.  MAC address filtering is not secure.  It is very easy to
determine and clone MAC addresses.  What you may want to do, is set up a
firewall & VPN, so that only the VPN (and perhaps SSH) is allowed to
reach beyond the access point.


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