wifi hijacker

[expat]

Depending on your router you *may* be able to set up a second SSID on a seperate vlan to run WEP and allow the radio access. You'd have to ensure that the WEP vlan was secured to prevent access to the WPA vlan but otherwise it shuold work, if your router supports it.

That makes sense. Don't know if I could do it but the idea makes sense.

Wait: what good would that do? I guess it would secure my PCs, but not my broadband connection?

Anyway radio now seems to support WPA1. I still note that otherwise I could do the whole network only cabled, apart from that. Hmm.

[DaveB]

That makes sense. Don't know if I could do it but the idea makes sense.

Wait: what good would that do? I guess it would secure my PCs, but not my broadband connection?

Anyway radio now seems to support WPA1. I still note that otherwise I could do the whole network only cabled, apart from that. Hmm.

You'd have to set it up so there was only one IP address available on the subnet, permanently assigned to the radio. It's not perfect but anyone trying to connect to the WEP would either be unable to get an IP address at all or, if they tried to use the radio's address, would get continual conflicts interrupting what ever they were tyring to do.

Cabling the network would be no different to running a second vlan, the wireless lan for the radio would still be your weakpoint and allow access to your internet service.

[Advocate]

Depending on your router you *may* be able to set up a second SSID on a seperate vlan to run WEP and allow the radio access. You'd have to ensure that the WEP vlan was secured to prevent access to the WPA vlan but otherwise it shuold work, if your router supports it.

Similar to BT FON etc...

[ratewhore]

I sometimes wonder if it ever seems strange to anyone to regard this stuff as ready to sell to all and sundry, when even technically-aware people can have a bit of a discussion about how to keep it safe, or even whather it can be made safe.

It's because security is not considered until the product is finished. That's the way it is currently and that's what keeps us in work. I can't see that changing in the foreseeable future.

ker'ching...