[DM-MUG] MAC address

[Brandon Carlson]

MAC address filtering will prevent unauthorized users to connect to
your network, but doesn't do anything for the privacy of the data
being sent around.

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Ray Bowler <rbowler at mchsi.com> wrote:
> Since my Airport can only do WEP I should probably add Mac Address.
>  Why isn't Mac Address enough?
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>  At 3:53 PM -0600 2/25/08, Darcy Baston wrote:
>  >If MAC address filtering is turned on, then only computers/devices
>  >who have had their MAC address pre-added can access the router.
>  >
>  >Passwords for accessing the network come from turning on encryption
>  >using WEP/WPA/WPA2 etc. You can use that and MAC address filtering,
>  >or one or the other. It's up to you. How secure do you want to be?
>  >It's best to use both.
>  >
>  >Darcy
>  >
>  >On Feb 25, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Ray Bowler wrote:
>  >
>  >>On another list someone mentioned using the Mac Address for access
>  >>to their wireless router. You can set this in Access Control in the
>  >>Airport utility to certain Mac Addresses. My question is: if I
>  >>enter the Mac Address of our two machines would these be the only
>  >>computers which could access the Airport? If so would a password
>  >>for the network be needed?
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