> "MAC address lists were bad news" - any details? > I know MAC addresses can be sniffed by an attacker > and cloned, but it deters casual connections.
True, but what I was led to understand was that indeed the addresses could be sniffed. So it was time to implement encryption of some kind. > Also I thought the only difference between WPA and > WPA2 was the method of encryption - TKIP versus AES... Isn't this one of those "technique versus implementation" things? It's theoretically the same but the headers are different or something else stops them being cross-compatible? Not really my field, I'm afraid. > I've been thinking of switching to WPA2-AES if I > can get the Squeezebox to work with it. It was completely transparent in my case - go through setup and it works. I did have to zip through the SB setup after having rebooted the WAP, just basically going through without changing anything, so you might have to do that if there is an interruption in WAP service, rather than it just popping back up by itself, but I don't know for sure. > I have a discarded wireless router that won't work > with the Squeezebox. I wanted to reuse it > somehow, so this statement is interesting. What > do you have the Belkin connected to? Do you have > it somehow linked to the WAP54GX for Internet access? Both are just access points, not routers. I simply ran the Belkin up with a different SSID and channel, opposite end of the house. They both sit on my wired enet and talk to my wired router for internet access. > Go with WPA-TKIP until you get WPA2 support for > the Toshiba. It's coming, everyone is moving to WPA2. Except that I don't think I can. Toshiba's support guy (the sensible one) was very iffy about either putting a different mini-PC card in - anyone any ideas? - though I suppose I could pull it, delete its drivers and put a PC card in that did it... > WPA-TKIP still remains unbroken, it's just that > WPA2-AES offers even stronger encryption. That IS useful to know, as it means I don't need to worry so much about the weak link being the WPA1 WAP. But I can't use that protocol for everything as the Nokia doesn't like WPA-TKIP. Thanks for the comments! --Richard E -- relen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ relen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20142 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
