[Nottingham] WEP with DHCP

Cam camilo at mesias.co.uk
Mon Sep 12 21:53:11 BST 2005


Michael

>> Doing it by MAC address means that if you reinstall the machine, you  
>> don't have to remember the WEP key and re-enter it all, it "just  
>> works". If you deal with a number of machines or have a tendency to  
>> reinstall regularly, it would be less administration to set it up  
>> once on the DHCP server.
> 
> 
> ...and don't forget that it takes very little effort to collect and dupe 
> MAC addresses.

Many routers and access points have MAC based filtering... less hassle 
than a DHCP linked scheme but not very popular because it's not secure.

-Cam



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