--On Tuesday, October 22, 2002 08:10:11 PM -0700 "Oisin C. Feeley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
hmmm.. we use something called VPN5000 I think.. and although its not "open" .. they do make a binary for linux/solaris/windows/mac/macXOn 22 Oct 2002, Donald E. Stidwell wrote:On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 22:17, Oisin C. Feeley wrote:[snip]Cheers Donald. That's really helpful information.> Donald, could I ask you two slightly OT questions? I'm interested in > getting a wirelss card and obviously yours works so:[snip]> 2. is it possible to make it use 40/64 bit WEP instead of the 128? Sure, just specify in neat that you want to use 64 bit WEP rather than 128 and enter the key. Curious as to why you'd use 64 instead of 128.It's for my wife's laptop which she's using in a university environment where the APs only do 40/64-bit. She's researched it a bit and found that the security aspect is not applicable because they (rightfully) insist that wireless users use VPN software. Unfortunately it seems to be non-Free Cisco binaries :-(
> One bad thing about WEP - on my machines, 128 bit WEP cuts throughputabout 1/3. Not really a big deal, but it is something to consider
I have been told that WEP is basically useless as its easily crackable?
Again, very interesting. thanks, Oisin Feeley -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
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