Beware - NetworkManager

[David-Paul Niner]

Quoting Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>:

> On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 14:37 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> on the wireless side, I use MAC address restrictions on the WAP
>
> I hope you're aware that MAC filtering is next to useless.  About all
> it's good for is avoiding *accidental* connections between networks.
> There's no security in it.

A *ahem* friend of mine learned last year just how easy it was to  
defeat said MAC filtering on those WAPs.  I now run mine as an  
extranet off my main firewall.

Fairly easy to do w/ Linux + iptables.

DP

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