On 7/30/10, Jonathon Kuo <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it possible to set up an Airport Extreme base station to handle both WEP > and WPA2 connections?
I think this is only possible with enterprise cisco routers. > > On Jul 30, 2010, at 4:58 AM, Neil Laubenthal wrote: > >> Well . . .WEP is better than no encryption at all. It's easy to break but >> you do have to deliberately go out of your way to do so . . .so it will >> provide some protection against casual sniffing and war-driving since a >> casual sniffer won't bother to try and crack it and a war-driver will just >> move down the block to an open WiFi. >> >> Depending on where you live (townhouse or single family detached home) and >> how much traffic goes down the street . . .with the limited range of WiFi >> it might be 'good enough' as long as you also use SSL for anything that >> really needs to be secure. >> >> Not an ideal situation and I'm not suggesting that you arbitrarily stick >> with WEP instead of doing something to upgrade (there are options) but you >> have to do a risk analysis for each situation instead of just saying 'WEP >> is bad'. >> >> >> On Jul 29, 2010, at 8:27 PM, Jonathon Kuo wrote: >> >>> No joy. I did find an AE Card Firmware dmg that adds WPA2 capability to >>> the early AE cards, but it doesn't recognize my Airport card, since it's >>> not an AE. Argh. >>> >> >> >> ----------------------------------------------- >> There are only three kinds of stress; your basic nuclear stress, cooking >> stress, and A$$hole stress. The key to their relationship is Jello. >> >> neil >> >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk > -- Best Regards, John Musbach _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
