[BLU] Re: Wireless ethernet?

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Don't use WEP.. It's broken, completely.  If I can _hear_ your
base station I can break your keys in a matter of minutes (well,
after I 'hear' a few million packets, but that only takes an hour
or so on a busy LAN).

WEP is broken.  You might as well keep it off and just use IPsec
and ssh.

-derek

Michael Bilow <mike at bilow.com> writes:

> Yes, in the sense that all 802.11b are simply nodes like Ethernet nodes.
> 
> No, in the sense that mixing brands and models can cause bad things to
> happen.  For example, several companies offer two lines, one which does
> 64-bit WEP and another which does 128-bit WEP.  Lucent Orinoco refers to
> these are "silver" and "gold," respectively.  If you mix these and turn on
> WEP, obviously there will be no connectivity between them.
> 
> -- Mike
> 
> 
> On 2001-08-08 at 12:44 -0400, David Kramer wrote:
> 
> > So I need an external device.  I did not realize that all 802.11b cards
> > work with all 802.11b "base stations" or "tranceivers" or whatever you
> > call them.  Is that really the case?
> 
> 
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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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