Re: Linksys hardware firewall enough...?

From: Greg Hennessy (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 11/09/04 

Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 18:56:36 +0000

On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 17:55:03 GMT, Leythos <void@nowhere.org> wrote:

>In article <c702p01brsd3md5ukmq7n9c3sv7fm8nngd@4ax.com>, me@privacy.net

>> Take a look at the way wPA works.
>
>I understand it, and don't see why MAC filtering is any less needed.

The dot1x part of WPA makes MAC filtering superfluous.

MAC filtering is implicit in the way EAPOL exchange works between client
and access point.

greg 

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