• A Great friend to the HardForum with a great kid that he is trying to get a scholorship to continue his schooling. Please give hime a vote! Only 24 hours left! Thanks.
    If you have an VOTE FOR KEENAN!

secure or not?

E

Egg_Shen

Limp Gawd
Joined
Jan 21, 2002
Messages
468
how safe is a AP if it has 64 bit WEP is enabled (with super sekret code).
I have the router enabled with SSID broadcasting (had a problem with the laptop seeing the AP name), and I saw an unknown MAC address connect today, it didn't get assigned an IP from the DHCP so I was wondering what that unknown wireless PC could do....

the network is just a PC Cat-5 wired to D-LINK DI-624 router and a laptop with a wireless card. Both PC's have harddrives shared and a printer is attached to the PC.
 
It's moderatly safe. If you want to be more paranoid, only allow your MAC address to connect.

The unknown wireless PC could sit on your network long enough to crack your WEP, but if you only have a small amount of traffic flowing though, the chances are that it would need a couple of days - weeks to crack your key.

If you are super-paranoid, do the following:

Code: 
Internet
     ||
Router
    ||
Switch---------------
||                  ||
Router             WAP
||
Internal Network

Assuming the routers have built-in firewalls. Then setup a VPN so that your laptop on the WAP can connect to your internal network. Then it's quite hard to connect to your internal network.

Also, don't forget to change the default username/password on the WAP. You'd be surprised how many people don't do that.
 
Originally posted by Unoid
WHat you need is a 6 demon bag!
Click to expand...
It's all in the relfexes :cool:

I was doing MAC addressing for a while, and had SSID off but the wireless laptop would loose the router and couldn't connect till the router got a reset....hmm
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top