For a very open wireless network, we'd like to allow everyone
to connect unless we know the MAC is a bad guy. That is, if
the MAC address is *in* the postgres db, don't authenticate. If
it's not in the db, authenticate.
Can anyone think of a way to do this, or will I need to
tweak the code?
On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 08:55, Mike Markowski wrote:
> For a very open wireless network, we'd like to allow everyone
> to connect unless we know the MAC is a bad guy. That is, if
> the MAC address is *in* the postgres db, don't authenticate. If
> it's not in the db, authenticate.
>
> Can anyone th
On Mon 13-Sep-04 at 859 EDT, Kaczmarek, Thaddeus wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 08:55, Mike Markowski wrote:
> > For a very open wireless network, we'd like to allow everyone
> > to connect unless we know the MAC is a bad guy. That is, if
> > the MAC address is *in* the postgres db, don't authent
HI Mike,
remember:
1/ Its very easy to change MAC on the wifi card .
2/ If the attacker understand that your burn MAC , he could try to DoS
your hotspot .
As mentionned by Ted in the first reply , its probably better to
authenticate only trusted users. (of course it could be by-passed by Bad
gu
On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 09:16, Mike Markowski wrote:
> On Mon 13-Sep-04 at 859 EDT, Kaczmarek, Thaddeus wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 08:55, Mike Markowski wrote:
> > > For a very open wireless network, we'd like to allow everyone
> > > to connect unless we know the MAC is a bad guy. That is, if
Mike Markowski escreveu:
For a very open wireless network, we'd like to allow everyone
to connect unless we know the MAC is a bad guy. That is, if
the MAC address is *in* the postgres db, don't authenticate. If
it's not in the db, authenticate.
Can anyone think of a way to do this, or will I need
"Kaczmarek, Thaddeus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not for nothing, but would it not be much easier to only authenticate
> trusted macs? I suspect the table would be much smaller as well.
I've had to work in such systems, it's annoying to the end user.
Their passwords are OK, but they're still
On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 13:55, Mike Markowski wrote:
> For a very open wireless network, we'd like to allow everyone
> to connect unless we know the MAC is a bad guy. That is, if
> the MAC address is *in* the postgres db, don't authenticate. If
> it's not in the db, authenticate.
>
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