[DM-MUG] MAC address

[Ray Bowler]

thanks all. I guess I will start using MAC address as well as password.

At 5:45 PM -0600 2/25/08, Brandon Carlson wrote:
>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?
>>
>  >
>>   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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