RE: [Full-Disclosure] Wireless Security

From: Simon Hailstone (Simon.Hailstone_at_orthogonsystems.com)
Date: 11/28/03

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    To: "Patrick Doyle" <patrick.doyle@bbc.co.uk>, <full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com>
    Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 15:23:25 -0000
    
    

    > wireless being used for meeting rooms etc, so the users would be
    > random which would mean the constant addition / removal of MACs
    > to the AP which would probably not be possible or practical all
    > of the time. Although policy could dictate that when a wireless
    > card is given out, the MAC address in added to the AP, however if
    > you have multiple APs in different areas of building, being
    > administered by different IT depts then this could soon become be
    > a problem.

    One way around to ease the management burden in this kind of setup
    is to have your AP's communicate with either central or distributed
    RADIUS servers, in order to determine if specific MAC addresses should
    be allowed to associate with the AP.

    Actually I'm not sure if you can do this with the Cisco 802.11b kit,
    however it is certainly possible with many other vendor's kit.

    There is a white paper on this at :

    http://www.wi-fitechnology.com/Wi-Fi_Reports_and_Papers/Freeradius_Deploymen
    t_of_MAC_Address.html

    ( http://makeashorterlink.com/?K22A159A6 ) in case it wraps!

    Simon Hailstone
    Orthogon Systems

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