[CentOS] WEP and CentOS 4

[Rodrigo Barbosa]

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On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 04:17:26PM -0500, Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote:
> 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.

Just out of curiosity, if you are using a VPN, why do you need WEP ?

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Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org>
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