From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 13 15:19:57 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A113106564A for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:19:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: from ms16-1.1blu.de (ms16-1.1blu.de [89.202.0.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F3ED8FC15 for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:19:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.113.119.211] (helo=tiny.Sisis.de) by ms16-1.1blu.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rliv2-0006oL-4g; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:19:52 +0100 Received: from tiny.Sisis.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tiny.Sisis.de (8.14.5/8.14.3) with ESMTP id q0DFKK0p003203; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:20:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: (from guru@localhost) by tiny.Sisis.de (8.14.5/8.14.3/Submit) id q0DFKIiw003202; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:20:18 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) X-Authentication-Warning: tiny.Sisis.de: guru set sender to guru@unixarea.de using -f Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:20:18 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz To: Waitman Gobble Message-ID: <20120113152017.GA3193@tiny> References: <4F0FC951.60409@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <4F0FDD54.3000402@herveybayaustralia.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT r226986 (i386) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Con-Id: 51246 X-Originating-IP: 82.113.119.211 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Da Rock Subject: Re: wireless and/or routing question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias Apitz List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:19:57 -0000 El día Friday, January 13, 2012 a las 07:03:11AM -0800, Waitman Gobble escribió: > Hi, > > Thanks. I've always heard countless rumors about WPA being wise :) I'll > take your advice and take a step up in technology. My "stubborn > conservatism" probably roots back to the time when not all devices could do > WPA, or at least I had crazy trouble getting things to work. But this > learned attitude was probably around 2000, which was like a million years > ago with dinosaurs and stuff. Time for me to finally get with it. > > ... Concerning WEP ./. WPA: From the technical point it is clear, WPA is more secure; but there are other aspects as well; we have had in Germany cases where the WAN IP of the AP appeared as source addr of some kind of crime (access to child porn or whatever) and the AP owner said: I'm using WEP, it was not me, and someone highjacked my AP ... and he/she went home as free person; matthias -- Matthias Apitz e - w http://www.unixarea.de/ UNIX since V7 on PDP-11, UNIX on mainframe since ESER 1055 (IBM /370) UNIX on x86 since SVR4.2 UnixWare 2.1.2, FreeBSD since 2.2.5