Wifi and seurity...
Hi Folks,
I'm pretty new to the wifi world having been up and running in Germany for 2 months now using w2k.
I'm not the paranoid type but I'll always run some kind of protection on my most sensitive data because it's just too easy if you know what you're doing to get into where you shouldn't be it always seems.
Anyway, I'm running a D-link DI-824VUP+ router which handles firewall, wifi and wired networking and I set the system up as a honeypot to see what kind of intrusions I'd get and monitored traffic pretty closely. The cards are D-link Airplus xtremeG's
Surprise surprise, after a couple of weeks I had an unwanted guest deliberately causing trouble on my network. My first instinct was to restrict MAC addresses down to the devices I am using. Thinking that it's pretty easy to sniff for a MAC address, I tightened things up with 128bit encryption.
This is where I'm getting a little confused with all the different encryption protocol descriptors.
Currently the NIC's are set to Open authentification, 128 bit. (Shared Authentification, WPA and WPA-PSK available as well as 802.1x on open authentification))
The corresponding settings on the router are Security: WEP (802.1x, WPA, WPA-PSK available)
Now assuming I wanted to run the tightest security I can on this home network for experimental reasons (limited to WIFI OK?) what would give me "corporate level" security? Also what software/machines would I need to perform this - and is it really an option for the home user cost-wise... No... I'm running w2k pro - not server...
TIA cb
read more and respond »Posted 5 years ago by Chris Berry in Wireless Networking
