combo wireless and wired home network

[Mike Burger]

On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Harry Putnam wrote:

> Ed Wilts <ewilts at ewilts.org> writes:
> 
> > My laptop has 2 connections - one wired when it's on my desk, and one
> > wireless.  When I'm wired, I'm on the inside.  When wireless, I have
> > restrictions as to which ports I can go through.  The ports available
> > through the wireless router are a subset of what's available on the
> > inside firewall.  Nobody gets on the inside of the inner firewall unless
> > they have a cable they can plug into my firewall/switch.  
> 
> Just a point of information (previso: I know very little about
> wireless):  
> 
> If you were to have hooked the wl router up on the inside network.
> Can't it be set to only receive connect from the MAC address of your
> laptop?  Or do you need dhcp?

It is possible to crack WEP, and to spoof MAC addresses.  It takes a while 
to do so, but it can be done.
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