[CentOS] WEP and CentOS 4

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.



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