Re: Wi-fi. Approaching customers

[Ryan Sumida <rsumida () csulb edu>]

They didn't use a GPS in our live demonstration.  From what I understand 
the US army sent out an RFP to secure WiFi on their bases and Newbury 
Networks won.  Maybe you can find an article on them that can explian more 
of this than I can. 

--Ryan Sumida


full-disclosure-bounces () lists grok org uk wrote on 03/15/2005 09:03:38 PM:

> 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
> -- 
> "Sometimes you get the blues because your baby leaves you. Sometimes you 
get'em
> 'cause she comes back." --B.B. King
>         ***testing, only testing, and damn good at it too!***
>
> OK, so you're a Ph.D.  Just don't touch anything.
>
>
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