How secure is it Mac Authentication. I mean, is there no way for someone to
emulate a Authorized Mac. with software or
something to get onto the network?
Practically it provides low security, anyone who knows a valid MAC address
can connect. Most network cards (wired or wireless) provide MAC
Ye , that's what I thought . Thanks for the conformation though. Is there
any other way in making this more secure?
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From: Veli-Matti Riepula [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 12:59 PM
Subject: RE: Using Radius for Mac Auth
Ye , that's what I thought . Thanks for the conformation though. Is there
any other way in making this more secure?
Nokia has a hybrid WEP/MAC authentication using RADIUS, where the user's
personal WEP key is delivered to the AP as a reply-item from a RADIUS
server. The user must have
Ta for the the help.
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From: Veli-Matti Riepula [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: RE: Using Radius for Mac Auth. with Wireless Internet.
Ye , that's what I thought . Thanks for the conformation though
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Wireless access points to simple auth. Username will be the MAC address
with the password same as the radius secret (most ones I have used anyway.
Username will be either in the format 00-00-00-00-00-00 or
00-00
Basically, go into your access point and point it to the
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Subject: RE: Using Radius for Mac Auth. with Wireless Internet.
Wireless access points to simple auth. Username will be the MAC address with the
password same as the radius secret (most ones I have used anyway. Username will be
either in the format 00-00-00-00-00-00
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From: Esteban A. Maríngolo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 10:33 AM
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Subject: RE: Using Radius for Mac Auth. with Wireless Internet.
What about if the Access Point doesn't support RADIUS functionality?
Only a few APs support RADIUS, and LEAP/EAP
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Michael
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From: Esteban A. Maríngolo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 10:33 AM
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Subject: RE: Using Radius for Mac Auth. with Wireless Internet.
What about if the Access Point doesn't support RADIUS functionality?
Only a few APs
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Thanks for all the help. I got it up and
running.
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From:
Michael S. McCollough
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Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 5:01
PM
Subject: RE: Using Radius for Mac Auth.
with Wireless Internet.
Wireless access
You can use the regular authentication method that unix or linux uses and
you don't have to maintain a seperate file for this type of authentication.
By any chance is there a how to or some type of document that can be
followed from beginning to end to make sure it is done correctly. I'm
How would I setup the access point as a client? Also when I try creating
users using my useradd or userconf commands it won't allow me to it just
says invalid user. What mac address would I specify for the access point
the wired mac address or the wireless mac address? I really appreciate
Subject: RE: Using Radius for Mac Auth. with Wireless Internet.
How would I setup the access point as a client? Also when I try creating
users using my useradd or userconf commands it won't allow me to it just
says invalid user. What mac address would I specify for the access point
the wired
Ok so then the mac address of the wireless card, but how do I set it up as a
client? and the issue with invalid user, should I just use the users file?
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remember that the MAC address that you have to specify is the address of the
wireless client.
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From: David Petruzzella [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 6:26 PM
Subject: RE: Using Radius for Mac Auth. with Wireless Internet.
How
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but they will all have the same password (as the password is actually coming
from the Access Point, which you will have programmed to have an
authorization password)
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That is correct, you only need the client side mac to be able to
authenticate.
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Jay DeSotel
Systems Administrator
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