On 16-Jan-05, at 1:08 PM, Scot L. Harris wrote:
Another measure the OP should implement is to lock the MAC address of
his laptops on the AP. Again this is not a perfect form of security but
is makes it just a little harder for the casual hacker to get deeper
into the OPs wireless network.
As the OP, I am happy to report that I do have wep set up (have for some time) and I do have the router set to only accept my two laptops' mac addresses. I'm not really that concerned since I doubt anyone wants to get into my network -- there is typically no file sharing going on, just tcp/ip, and no servers run locally so they'd only be stealing Internet connectivity, not access to my local machines, even if they did break in. And they're more or less welcome to that if they go to that trouble. Not that it would be *that* much trouble for anyone with the right tools and knowledge, I gather from my intro course to networking (given that wep is pretty trivial to crack). But still...
-- Trevor Smith trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
