[KLUG Members] Wireless Access Point recommendation?

[Darrel Ray Clute, III]

If this is to be implemented in a business application I would suggest
implementing Cisco Aironet products.  There are three product lines only
more research on them would produce what would be best for your
application.  The primary reason I recommend the Cisco product is for
the security factors.  Depending on the budget for the project you will
want to use a RADIUS server and implement 128bit WEP keys on a user by
user basis.  This will also allow you the ability to predetermine the
MAC addresses you will allow to access the WLAN for all your AP's.

If this is well beyond the scope of your implementation (i.e. you will
only need to implement one AP and a small number of users will be
accessing) then you can limit access by MAC address inside the single
AP.  All Cisco AP's and most others allow for a minimum of 256 MAC
addresses (Cisco 1024 and up) to be stored in an AP for such secure
implementations.

On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 17:43, Bob Kanaley wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> Today, I was told to add a wireless access point to our LAN :0
> 
> I am concerned about having this insecure thingy I know little about sitting
> behind my firewalls.
> 
> I quickly read that WiFi Protected Access (WAP) followed by 802.11i is
> supposed to be more secure than WiFi alone. But, it sounds like WAP and
> 802.11i are not implemented yet. I am especially suspicious about new
> devices with new untested protocols. (I believe that "more secure" is a
> euphemism for a challenge between hackers and crackers to see who can find
> the weakest link first. One wants to fix it the other wants to exploit it.)
> 
> Does anyone have any very specific recommendations that might help my palms
> stop sweating?
> 
> Bob
> 
> Robert V. Kanaley
> Manager Information Systems
> Agdia, Inc.
> rvk@agdia.com
> http://www.agdia.com
> 
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Darrel Clute, CCNA/CCDA

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