wireless access point

Jerry McBride mcbrides9
Mon May 17 11:58:29 PDT 2004


Hi Gary,

On Wednesday 21 January 2004 06:48 pm, Gary wrote:
> Hi Jerry,
>
> On  Wed, 21 Jan 2004 18:39:07 -0500 UTC (1/21/2004, 5:39 PM -0600 UTC my
> time), Jerry McBride wrote:
>
> J> WEP has been cracked... If the really bad guys want to abuse you, they
> will.
>
> Yep, I have seen the crack demo'ed ... 15 minutes...  Of course, it is a
> little different now with some of the 256 bit keys available ...
>
> J> About the best security I've found are the models that filter
> connections J> based on MAC addresses. My favorite 200mw 80211b WAP,
> ARLX-NL-2611-AP3 is J> superb at this. Mr. Admin can list up to 15 MAC in
> the WAP, if you aren't in J> the list, you don't get it...WEP or not...
>
> cool.. thanks for this info... It is good to know... any problems using in
> Linux?
>

None... simple web interface... Also has the ability to do remote reboot... 
Kinda nice too. :')



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