Re: To WEP or not to WEP (WiFi)

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Author: Craig White
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: To WEP or not to WEP (WiFi)
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 04:42 -0700, G Gambill wrote:

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> Very secure from someone making changes. Not worried about someone
> listening.

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that's a granularity choice that would suggest that all you need is to
'filter' wireless by known MAC addresses - encryption optional but not
entirely necessary - of course it's not hard to change a NIC's mac
address ;-)
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> FWIW, I am using static IP only. Small network

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doesn't matter
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> Each Win box has a Norton Firewall which only accepts certian IP address in.
> I haven't found the Win equivelant of host deny all excptt for host allow.
> 8-(

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things like hosts.allow & hosts.deny aren't firewall - they don't stop
packets from reaching (i.e. - worthless in DOS floods)

what hosts.allow and hosts.deny represent represent is an 'ACL' (access
control language) and Windows actually does have ACL's - just that many
of them are awkward to implement and implementation in programs is up to
the developer and inconsistent if considered at all.

Craig

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