wireless access point

[Wil McGilvery]

Using a Mac address with a wireless router is good idea, but mac addresses can be spoofed. Someone with the right knowledge/tools can still get connected.

Regards,

Wil McGilvery
Manager
Lynch Digital Media Inc

         

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-----Original Message-----
From: Raymond Russell [mailto:ray2230 at comcast.net] 
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 9:14 AM
To: Linux-Users sxs
Subject: Re: wireless access point

On 1/22/04 11:30 PM, "Andrew L. Gould" <algould at datawok.com> wrote:

.
> 
> Thanks for the security tip.  My Linksys router only allows MAC filtering by
> listing MAC's that should be blocked......and to this end I think we should
> ask that all crackers register their MAC's.     ;-)
> 

The Linksys documentation is terrible but if you enable the MAC filtering
then only the MAC entered on the setup page will be able to connect.  The
setup page leads you to believe that you need to know the MAC address of
clients you want to filter but that is not the case.  Make sure you have the
latest firmware for the router and it should work properly.



-- 

Ray Russell
Mac OS X 10.3.2




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