"David G. Miller" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
es <hlhowell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sounds like you did your "home" work. Sorry about the bad pun. But it
> is illuminating just how much the signals can penetrate and how far they
> can be detected, isn't it. The range also changes if one were to place
> a pre-amp and directional antenna on the card (as some war drivers do).
>
> Regards,
> Les H
Oh, come on. That's not a bad pun. Bad puns are REAL groaners.
I didn't realize that WEP had become as vulnerable as it seems to be. I
was also going on the assumption that the little traffic I generate
would make WEP key recovery difficult. It seems that current cracking
tools are able elicit traffic from an AP without connecting such that
the key can be recovered without seeing any traffic that I actually
generate. I guess the behavior isn't that surprising given how easily
wireless stuff connects.
Looks like I need to bump the priority on implementing WPA.
Cheers,
Dave
The deed is done. I now have radius authenticated WPA set up for my
AP. I found the following articles very helpful if anyone needs to set
up WPA-Radius:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8017
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8095
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8151
The articles assume SuSE Linux so a few directories and file names are
different but nothing too hard to figure out. There were a couple of
items that the author assumed readers would "just know" that I had to do
a little digging to figure out. A lot depends on what you already know
about setting up radius which for me was nada.
Of course, in the middle of all this, my laptop decided it was time to
panic and, of course, it was while I wasn't working with it but trying
to decipher the above articles for my situation: laptop working, turn
away, turn back, laptop dead with caps lock key blinking. This time I
had been bouncing the network up and down a lot trying to debug the
wireless with WPA.
Cheers,
Dave
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