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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi All,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rik brought up an interesting point in his post
about hiding the identity of his Default Gateway by using a non-standard ip
address. While security by obsurity is good, it generally only slows
people down from breaking into your network resources. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Prefereably the basic security on a default
gateway should consist of layer 2/3 filtering, where the mac and ip addresses of
the authorised devices on your network are listed in the router for allowing
access to it. </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ideally mac address would be
better. Thus only allowing those authorised mac and ip addresses to
access your router. Then if some one does wardrive your network, they can
only browse your local connection and not get leach from your net connection.
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ciao</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dave.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=mibz@optushome.com.au href="mailto:mibz@optushome.com.au">rik</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=matthew.hill@matthewhillonline.com
href="mailto:matthew.hill@matthewhillonline.com">Matthew Hill</A> ; <A
title=peninsulamelbwire@yahoogroups.com
href="mailto:peninsulamelbwire@yahoogroups.com">Peninsula Wireless</A> ; <A
title=melbwireless@wireless.org.au
href="mailto:melbwireless@wireless.org.au">Melbourne Wireless</A> ; <A
title=wgrouting@wireless.org.au
href="mailto:wgrouting@wireless.org.au">Routing Workgroup</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, May 11, 2003 12:05 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] ap ip
numbers.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>any number, as long as the sysadmin knows it, its
like people put there gateway as .1 so its easyer to remember, i dont cous if
someone jumps on my network they have to keep guessing my gateway
ip</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=matthew.hill@matthewhillonline.com
href="mailto:matthew.hill@matthewhillonline.com">Matthew Hill</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=peninsulamelbwire@yahoogroups.com
href="mailto:peninsulamelbwire@yahoogroups.com">Peninsula Wireless</A> ; <A
title=melbwireless@wireless.org.au
href="mailto:melbwireless@wireless.org.au">Melbourne Wireless</A> ; <A
title=wgrouting@wireless.org.au
href="mailto:wgrouting@wireless.org.au">Routing Workgroup</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, May 11, 2003 11:48
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [MLB-WIRELESS] ap ip
numbers.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Hello all.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Just a query for those persons with aps and
lans in the same building.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Is there a prefered convention to assigning
the ap an ip address. do you give it .1 or the last number in a block, or
what ?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Thanks</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana
size=2>MAtthew</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>