Hi folks, Any advice about configuring CentOS 4 and wep? I am using an intel pro 2200 which is configured and working but fails with wep, Cheers in advance _________________________________________________________________ Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters
Hey, Don't bother with it, WEP can be broken (cracked) in 5 minutes (with easily available and freely downloadable soft) and in my experience all WEP really achieves is slows down the link (my 2xIWE1100 bridge runs at 550kB/s without WEP and 100kB/s with WEP). Cheers, MaZe. On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Hugh Tollan wrote:> Hi folks, > > Any advice about configuring CentOS 4 and wep? > > I am using an intel pro 2200 which is configured and working but fails with > wep, > > Cheers in advance > > _________________________________________________________________ > Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! > http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
From: Maciej ?enczykowski <maze at cela.pl>> Hey, > Don't bother with it, WEP can be broken (cracked) in 5 minutes > (with easily available and freely downloadable soft) and in my > experience all WEP really achieves is slows down the link (my > 2xIWE1100 bridge runs at 550kB/s without WEP and 100kB/s with WEP).The idea, as always, is to make yourself a smaller target than the next guy. As always, standard: - No SSID broadcast - No Open System access - MAC filtering - WEP - Always VPN Use WPA/802.1x if you've got it. -- Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 17:03, Hugh Tollan wrote:> Any advice about configuring CentOS 4 and wep?Now that several people have expended too much effort denouncing and defending WEP, let's see if we can't actually answer your question. I have a Dell Inspiron 600m with a ipw2100, close kin to the 2200 you have. It Just Works. I think I had to specifically tell system-config-network about it and that it was a wireless device, not an ethernet, but at that point I created a connection with it, gave it the WEP key in hex (of the right length), the SSID (which is case-sensitive, I might mention), and told it to use Managed Mode. I think in order to properly recognize the adapter I had to load firmware manually once, then the wireless settings Just Worked. Ask the IPW220 list for more detailed information; oddly, try ipw2100.sourceforge.net and subscribe to the list. I don't consider 'don't use WEP' to be advice about configuring WEP, personally. Layered security, folks; while WEP may be close to useless on its own, it can serve its use in that you have to use the specific tools to crack it; it's not wide open like a non-WEP link would be; at least then you can say you made an effort to secure your AP if someone uses your AP and internet to crack a bank's servers; someone with a wide-open AP might be liable in that case. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu