Re: Wireless DCF-660w card question

true, but the wep keys will stop all but the most determined cracker - 
and if someone wants to get into your network that badly, you're 
probably screwed no matter what you do.  

K. Reid Wightman wrote:

>On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 22:48, sander-martijn wrote:
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>>i didn't put anything for ESSID - left it on non-specific.  left network 
>>type on infrastructure.  wep enabled 128 open system set the key to the 
>>hex (you really should do this - if you leave wep off on your network 
>>anyone that can get near your network in proximity has complete access - 
>>and you only need to enter the hex once per device).  also set up tcp/ip 
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>Just remember that it is broken, so don't feel safe by using wep alone. 
>128-bit wep keys can be solved mathematically by sniffing about 500 megs
>of traffic in the worst case...your best bet is to do mac address
>filtering (although mac addresses can be spoofed too....).
>
>Cheers,
>Reid
>
>  
>

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