Guarding Your Wireless Network with authpf
Security professionals tend to agree that even though WEP encryption offers little protection, it’s just barely enough to signal to would-be attackers that you do not intend to let all and sundry use your network resources. Using WPA increases security somewhat, at the cost of some complexity.
The configurations we built so far in this chapter are functional. Both the WEP and WPA configurations will let all reasonably configured wireless clients connect, and that may be a problem in itself, since that configuration does not have any real support built in for letting you decide who uses your network.
As mentioned earlier, MAC address filtering is not really a solid defense against attackers because it’s ...
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