[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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