Re: Wireless security
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:30:09 -0500, Baho Utot wrote:
I need some help securing my wireless access point. I am new to wireless
networking but I do know ethernet.
I have no problems with my setup other than I need to secure this network
somehow.
I have a Linksys WRT54G wireless router that I would like to enable some
kind of encryption on it as it is running unrestricted.
It has the following options: WPA Personal, WPA Enterprise, WPA2 Personal,
WPA2 Enterprise, Radius and WEP.
I connect to it through from a desktop and a notebook both using a broadcom
chip set card.
iwlist gives me the following options:
wlan0 2 key sizes : 40, 104bits
4 keys available :
[1]: off
[2]: off
[3]: off
[4]: off
Current Transmit Key: [1]
Authentication capabilities :
WPA
WPA2
CIPHER TKIP
CIPHER CCMP
Which encryption method should I choose and how do I configure it?
Thankyou
Easiest first step: disable broadcasting of ESSID. Not terribly secure, I
realize, but it's difficult to connect to a network if you can't find it's
name.
.
Relevant Pages
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