Re: Broadcom wireless, "Access Point: Invalid"
Hi,
On Sam, 03 Mär 2007, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
> Q. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Open Authentication?
>
> *A. *Here are the advantages and disadvantages of Open Authentication:
>
> *Advantages:* Open Authentication is a basic authentication
> mechanism, which you can use with Wireless devices that do not
> support the complex authentication algorithms. Authentication in the
> 802.11 specification is connectivity-oriented. By design the
> requirements for authentication allow devices to gain quick access
> to the network. In such a case, you can use Open Authentication.
>
> *Disadvantages:* Open Authentication provides no way to check if a
> client is a valid client and not a hacker client. If you do not use
> WEP encryption with Open Authentication, any user who knows the SSID
> of the WLAN can access the network. Cisco does not recommend that
> you deploy wireless LANs without WEP encryption."
They are here refering to RADIUS, so you can connect Usernames and Network
Access. Normaly a WEP or WPA-PSK Key grant access to the complete network.
With RADIUS or something similar you can grant access by user&password or
user&cert which in more complex networks _is_ the better way (simply think
of, if there is more than one network segment, or a machine gets stolen...
and you want to revoke just one user)
--
Florian Reitmeir
Reply to: