Darren Albers said the following on 07/29/2007 03:26 PM: > The mac address is always sent as part of the frame. This is how each > station knows how to reach each other since the MAC Address is the > only addressing known at layer two. Since all hosts on the network > have to know each others MAC it cannot be encrypted. So all someone > has to do is fire up their favorite wireless discovery program to see > which MAC Addresses have an association and steal it. > I did not know the MAC address was sent with each packet. Guess I should study up on my TCP/IP. WEP or WPA for me from now on.
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