[CentOS] WEP and CentOS 4

Wed Jun 8 00:39:11 UTC 2005
Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org>

On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 18:20 -0300, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, if you are using a VPN, why do you need WEP ?

You should always prevent someone from even having layer 2 access.
That way, they can't easily start breaking your layer 3 encryption.

It's the classic issue of people using the same layer 2 for both
public and private IP.  I don't need to be able to route to your
network, I can scan your 802.3 frames directly!


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Bryan J. Smith                                     b.j.smith at ieee.org 
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