Aaron
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I was thinking about our situation at work last night
Heres the first thread about this
I plan to name the SSID's to coincide with the part of the school i.e. Art, English etc.
Adding each laptop to each SSID will be a bit of a nightmare because each will need to be done individually. Plus we have a lot of laptops.
I was thinking, if I left the WPA authentication off but turned on MAC filtering on, would this be adequate security? This was the member of staff could simply click on the SSID they require and it will automatically connect.
I have a log of the MAC addresses of each laptop anyway and I can import them in the each of the access points.
Thoughts?
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Richie
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If you use MAC filtering over WPA then you would have no data encryption.
(hope no1 saw me other posts  )
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Aaron
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No encryption but access control.
Would the packets still be able to be sniffed by computers not connected the WLAN? (using the right software of course)
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pow
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No Aj., but non allowed computers would still be able to "sniff" the packets and find out mac addresses.
Can you change a device MAC address?
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Aaron
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quote:
Originally posted by pow
Can you change a device MAC address?
Not easily, but there are ways.
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pow
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Not secure enough IMO 
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Aaron
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I've gone with WPA2 encryption on all the wireless access points.
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Paul_J
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Security is an issue.
I can't remember exactly how we did it at work (I was working in the IT dept of a large corp, on a large multi leveled site) - but we had similar issue at first.
Though I think there was an option on the actual laptop's in the end to change to strongest signal.
Then there was like some interval setting or something, that constantly refreshed.
I can't remember all the details to be honest. But Security is a important factor, business or school.
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