relen wrote:
>> "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.
Oh yes, if you had no encryption, sniffing and
cloning a MAC address is very easy. Again, it
will deter your neighbour accidentally connecting
to your network, but it won't deter anyone looking
to crack it.
>
>> 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 had thought the only difference was the method
of encryption.
> 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.
Makes me want to try it out. Sounds like you
didn't have to reenter your WPA passphrase, which
is the main thing stopping me. I use a
63-character phrase with capitalization, numbers
and punctuation, so while it's secure it's hard to
type into the Squeezebox using the remote! :-)
>
>> 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.
Aha. Thanks for the clarification.
>
>> 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...
So the card is built-in? How old is the laptop?
If it's relatively new and still widely-used you
should eventually expect WPA2 support, but if it's
an older or rare model maybe not.
>
>> 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.
Whoa, the Nokia 770 can't handle WPA-TKIP? I
would imagine it's just your situation though -
surely the hardware is capable of WPA. That sucks
for you, though. :-(
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