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« Weak range router a blessing in disguise for security?  
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JDErickson

join:2008-01-26
West Jordan, UT
·Comcast

reply to WLiley
Re: Is this an attack

said by WLiley See Profile :

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?
to forum · permalink · · 2008-01-27 13:04:34 · Reply to this


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.
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AT&T dsl; Westell 2200 modem/router; SuSE 10.1; firefox 2.0.0.10
to forum · permalink · · 2008-01-27 13:19:01 · Reply to this
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