[KLUG Members] vnc over internet recommendations

[Mark Bystry]

ahhh. just learned something then. thanks.

i have 4 pc's at home and i have their mac addresses in my router. i have only allowed 4 ip 
addresses to. i turned wep off because it's a crap shoot if i can get a connection with it on. not 
all of my cards support wpa. i figured that the mac address thing was secure enough for my 
neighborhood. perhaps i should re-thinh this.

sorry, this got way off topic.

Mark Bystry
SuSE 9.3 Pro
KDE 3.4.0


Adam Tauno Williams wrote the following on 6/6/2005 7:19 AM:
>> >>You know I should be doing that on my home LAN too, now that WEP
>> >>can be cracked in like 8 seconds or something.
>>can't you just supply mac addresses for each pc on the lan. or am i missing something.
> 
> 
> ?  That might prohibit people from using the WAP but it does nothing to
> stop them from grabbing your data out of the air.
> 
> Plus a MAC address can be trivially faked,  see man ifconfig.
> 
>        hw class address
>               Set the hardware address of this interface, if the device
> driver
>               supports  this  operation.   The keyword must be followed
> by the
>               name of the hardware class and the printable ASCII
> equivalent of
>               the  hardware  address.   Hardware  classes  currently
> supported
>               include ether (Ethernet), ax25 (AMPR AX.25), ARCnet  and
> netrom
>               (AMPR NET/ROM).
> 
> 
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