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Posted by Bachrach V3.1 on December 3, 2004, 6:03 am
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your allowed machines. (the mac addresses are sent across in plain text).
MAC address filtering is clearly better than nothing, but it's not as good
as a good WEP implementation. You don't seem to have much of a choice due to
the ipaq (BTW - are you sure it won't support WEP? I've got an ipaq at work
that does wep just fine). What you need to do is ask yourself if anyone is
going to spend the time to sniff your traffic and get into your network.
Also if you have other things on your network (like windows shares), you
might want to reconsider how you do those things since intruders may now be
able to get onto your network.
----- Original Message -----
Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 4:00 PM
Subject: How reliable is locking MAC address for Wi-Fi router?
> I have several devices with Wi-Fi interface. One of them, iPaq
> obviously does not have updated firmware for wi-fi and there is no
> such update on the HP support site. The problem of this firmware that
> I can not make it working with wi-fi encryption protocol. So, I just
> switched off encryption on my Netgear router and instead put the list
> of MAC addresses which are allowed to connect. How dengerous or how
> reliable is this solution with a security regards? Can anybody break
> this list of connect from the device which is not in the list?
>
> Thank you.
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