sideways2 wrote: > Guest access is just a Linksys thing...it allows someone who is visiting > the house to have access to my wireless without having my main > password...so when my kid's friends come over...if they need the > internet on their phone I can turn it on and give them a cheapie > password without compromising my real network password... > > It's off now...level set to 4...but I did try accessing it before with > no luck...
Your guest access is a wlan without encryption and without protection and open to each neighbour. If you see all the other wlans, so all your neighbours can see your wlans. A maliscious hacker will be happy to find a open wlan and perhaps use it for illegal action. After some time are two cops at your door asking one question: "Are you the owner of wlan xyz?" and you have a big problem! I strongly recommend to protect the guest access ALL THE TIME by a password! But the issue is not fixed yet. I made a short test last night with a open wlan. The preliminary result : the NetworkManager has a severe problem with the handling of unprotected wlans. The connection was broken and remained broken, even after I protected the wlan and rebooted the wandboard. I used the the cli-interface of the NetworkManager (command nmcli) and with this tool I was succesful to bring up the wlan again. I will make some more tests also with Fedora 20 ( have a running version with wlan to). Bernd ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ab.wagener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=53748 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99395 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
