Re: Wi-fi. Approaching customers

[Ron DuFresne <dufresne () winternet com>]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Gregh wrote:

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> > > From what little I read on their site, it seems to be a radius auth mech
> > based upon MAC addresses.
>
> Isn't that basically what a lot of wi-fi broadband router/modems do anyway?
>
> Eg, set up a netgear DG834 (think it was) and it was having problems with auto assigned IPs for lan members so 
> shortcut the problem by telling it to manually assign IP number to MAC so that each time a MAC came in range it got 
> the same IP number always. I set the IP numbers manually at each client computer and thus they would only connect 
> using that number. Connection problems died off instantly, then. The upshot is that if the MAC is unknown, it cant 
> get access now even if the WEP is successfully decrypted. Wouldn't that radius auth be basically that idea?

That's what I read, as well as a lot of talk about "location-enabled
network or LENs", which the more reading I do give the impression they
have some kind of GPS functionality invovled, this is the only way I can
make any real sense of their claims to be able to segment the wLAN<s> into
locations and determine a sense of perimiter limits and location sense.
Of course, I'm trying to give the benefit of the doubt and read that they
actually sell what they are claiming in marketing lit.

Thanks,


Ron DuFresne
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