On Aug 14, 2006, at 8:17 AM, kelsey hudson wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:WEP and MAC address filtering are weak solutions.Yes, but sufficient for 90% of people. Add hidden SSID to this and that's sufficient for 99% of people. But, most crap access points don't support this.
Most crap drivers/utilities on clients don't support this, either. Many Windows clients won't play with an AP that isn't broadcasting its SSID beacon, even if you force it to associate with that SSID.
I think John was having problems getting his Linux notebook to associate to the AP in my house until I re-activated SSID beacons.
I recall it just working on my Mac, but that seems normal. ;) Actually, it "just worked" back on my Fedora Core 1 notebook (using the wlan-ng drivers for my Prism 2.5 card.)
It really does depend on the wireless client's drivers & setup utilities on being able to cope with the fact that the SSID isn't being broadcast, and I've seen enough problems with it turned off that I just leave it on.
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