Every time I hear about MAC address filter - I wonder who are we trying to secure the network from.
It can make things difficult for friends who we not only need to tell your password, but also go to the office, turn on the PC, figure out their MAC and white list it. Quit a bit of a hassle for every single device. It sure has no effect on an intruder from some far away land out of reach of the Wlan. It has no effect on a neighbor who knows the Wlan password, because they can simply listen to your traffic, see some MAC which works and use that to connect. Random passer by would not know your password. Kid's, spouse's friends - that will surely cause constant nagging and judgement comments, not worth it, for sure. So the only people I can think of it successfully deters are the ones we care about. Did I forgotten about somebody? Tom On Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 9:12 PM Dick Steffens <d...@dicksteffens.com> wrote: > On 04/24/2018 02:26 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > Brian Krebs had a blog post on this a while ago. The key thing to do -- > > unless I'm badly mistaken -- is to change the admin's password from the > > factory default. > > That one I knew about when I got the router, and it has a password only > I know. And it also has a wireless pass phrase that only I and a few > friends who visited in the past know of. Most of them are > unsophisticated enough that they probably forgot it, although their WiFi > enabled devices probably still have it. > > > If your LAN is on a different class C subnet, change the > > router's IP address from the standard 192.168.1.1 to an address on your > > subnet. > > Not on a different subnet. > > > And, while risking the wrath of Russell, limit access to the MAC > > addresses > > of your local hosts that will access it via radio. > > I hadn't thought of that one. It would be in addition to the pass > phrase, and that would cover visiting friends who have been here before. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
