[Soekris] Net4521 Console Help

[Ron Watkins]

WEP is completely insecure and should be not be used.  It can be cracked 
in under 5 minutes with easily-available tools.  Someone sitting outside 
on the street with a laptop can be into your network so fast you might 
as well not even encrypt it.   Even WPA, while not directly crackable, 
is being attacked with brute-force password guessing.  It's best to use 
WPA2 with long, complex passwords. 

If this person's radio is three years old, there's a very good chance 
it's still just 11b, and, thus, supports only WEP.   54g hardware has 
been out that long, but it was very hard to use with the freeware OSes 
back then.

If you put the WEP link on an untrusted network, and use another layer 
of encryption on top, it could be perfectly safe, but that's a gigantic 
PITA to get running when very solid routers with full 54g are $52 after 
rebate. :)

Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2007/02/09 22:03, Ron Watkins wrote:
>   
>> In all seriousness, this will probably be enough of a pain that you 
>> don't want to do this.  The soekris is superb hardware, but if it hasn't 
>> been used in several years, it's gonna require a huge amount of patching 
>> to get current, which is really hard on these flash-based systems,
>>     
>
> It has m0n0wall on it, so upgrading shouldn't be too tricky.
>
>   
>> and you're probably going to want a new radio for it.  It's probably 
>> 802.11b, which is 11mbit and horribly insecure.... the newer 11g is 
>> 54mbit and theoretically very hard to crack.
>>     
>
> Would you like to explain that a bit?
>
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