Re: Is this an attack - dslreports.com

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WLiley Woodman Premium join:2000-12-01 Grand Blanc, MI clubs:	reply to JDErickson Re: Is this an attack as has been said, with WPA2 you are ok. the MAC filtering & disabled SSID broadcast does little/nothing (as you may have discovered). seeing things hit your log is not cause for alarm. as long as you see "access denied" like you have. you should see the hits my router takes! (WallWatcher & NetWatchman used here) -- "The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over." HST
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JDErickson join:2008-01-26 West Jordan, UT ·Comcast	said by WLiley : as has been said, with WPA2 you are ok. the MAC filtering & disabled SSID broadcast does little/nothing (as you may have discovered). seeing things hit your log is not cause for alarm. as long as you see "access denied" like you have. you should see the hits my router takes! (WallWatcher & NetWatchman used here) Do these "attacks" slow down your router while it handles them?
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nwrickert sand groper Premium,MVM join:2004-09-04 Geneva, IL ·AT&T Midwest	Do these "attacks" slow down your router while it handles them? Not significantly. They are only a tiny fraction of the traffic, so you would not notice the effect. Additionally, since they are local, they don't impact your bandwidth to your ISP and to the internet. -- AT&T dsl; Westell 2200 modem/router; SuSE 10.1; firefox 2.0.0.10
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