[DM-MUG] MAC address

[Ray Bowler]

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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