Re: Wireless Router Insanity

On Tuesday 17 January 2006 09:01, Dave Mann wrote:
>  I power down the Linksys router, do an refresh dhcp and
> everything works fine.  She can power down .. but next power up, same thing
> happens.  Any ideas?

Hopefully, your Linksys supports remote syslog. If it does, have it send 
messages to your linux machine and look for errors.


> I set it to automatically connect to our 
> home network which is wep and restricted to her mac address. 

You may want to turn off MAC authentication. The same bad guy who knows how to 
crack a WEP key almost certainly knows how to spoof his/her MAC address.

Probably the safest thing to do is to turn off the radio when she isn't using 
it. 


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