Re: To WEP or not to WEP (WiFi)

George,
I have been experimenting with Wifi on Linux for a few weeks and I
have to say I have not had much success (with anything faster than
802.11b with WEP). However, regarding security, my typical steps for
securing the connection are:
1) Use WPA-PSK minimum for encryption. If you're on Linux, this may
not be possible, so use WEP 128-bit.
2) Set the router's MAC address filtering to only accepts known MAC
addresses and deny all others.
3) Do not broadcast your SSID.
4) Change the name of your router. A lot of manufacturers put the
router model name in this field, like my Linksys WRT54G. There's no
sense telling anyone who does find your network what model your using.

I am not an expert, but this has worked pretty well for all the
wireless routers I have setup.

Does anyone else have any suggestions?


On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 18:30:52 -0700, George <ggambill@emr.net> wrote:
> Someone posted on this list (I think) a comment that allowed me to infer
> that WEP in and of it's self is not good enough.
>
> The options on the router seem to be:
> disable (default)
> WEP
> 802.1x and RADIUS
> WPA-PSK
> WPA
>
> What other steps might be well advised in order to "lock down" the network?
>

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Donn
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