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[NMLUG] Linux Router/Firewall
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 09:19:43PM -0600, Ed Heron
carved this out of pure phosphors:
> From: "Mike Garfias" <mike@garfias.org>
>
> > Yeah, its M$, but it works, and I didn't want to pay for a real WAP, it
> just
> > wasn't worth it to me. The firmware could use a bit of work, it doesn't
> let
> > me hide the SSID, but at least does 128bit WEP, and does MAC filtering.
>
> I hid the SSID on my WAP, but M$ stopped working. I got the impression
> that M$ requires the WAP to broadcast the SSID. If I'm wrong, I'd like to
> know, cause hiding the SSID would be cute. Does turning off the SSID
> improve security much?
No. Tools such as Kismet will listen to the packets and a) notice a stealthed
network, and b) attempt to destealth it. It's more trouble than it's worth.
>
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/*
* For moronic filesystems that do not allow holes in file.
* We may have to extend the file.
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2.4.0-test2 /usr/src/linux/fs/buffer.c
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