How safe is to run open WiFi with filter that would allow only specified MAC address to access it?
Not very, MAC addresses are easy to spoof.
How safe is to run open WiFi with filter that would allow only specified MAC address to access it?
How safe is to run open WiFi with filter that would allow only specified MAC address to access it?
First of all its very unsafe. Spoofing a MAC address is very easy to do on an unsecured network. Once a hacker gains your list of MAC addresses for connected clients they simply set one as their MAC address and they now have unfettered access to your network. Second, why would you want to? That would require you to enter each and every MAC address that you wish to access your network. Time consuming and depending on your network topology it could take forever to manually reconstruct your settings if you had to do so (and many of us have had to). Set up your network with the highest level of security allowed by your clients, WPA or WPA2, AES if WPA2, if at all possible. I also use random password generators to set up encryption keys and regularly change them. A simple Google search will turn up password generators.How safe is to run open WiFi with filter that would allow only specified MAC address to access it?
Thank you all who replied.
I'm running OpenVPN client 24/7. Would that prevent sniffing and MAC Address Spoofing?
https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin/blob/master/README-merlin.txt3.0.0.4.246.20:
- NEW: Wifi status icon will be half colored if only one radio is enabled.
- NEW: Wifi status icon popup will report the state of each radios.
- NEW: upnp custom config file for miniupnpd
- NEW: unmount user script
- NEW: led_ctrl, makemime applet (for use in conjunction with sendmail)
- NEW: Implemented control for network switch LED (all four at once)
- NEW: Stealth Mode: option to disable all LEDs
- FIXED: Radio toggle through WPS button would be overriden by a scheduled
radio. Reverted "switch" to "toggle" code to prevent this.
- FIXED: You couldn't disable DMZ by clearing the IP field.
- FIXED: You couldn't edit entered text in DHCP/MAC/etc name field
- FIXED: clientid passing for some ISPs requiring it (like Sky UK)
was broken with the DHCP client change of build 220.
- FIXED: No longer reboot the router three times during boot time if one
of the radios is disabled by the user. (RT-N66U)
- FIXED: Changing the router login name to anything other than "admin"
would prevent radvd, ecmh and the cru script from working
properly - they all assumed "admin". Made then use
http_username instead (which is tied to the superuser)
- CHANGED: Improved SMB and vsftpd read performance by up to 30%
I had to put my pc into the dmz to get games and other apps that used upnp to work with this router - otherwise it would not work now it apears that putting the machine into the dmz broke the repsond to ping from wan as a number of online ping me tests keep timing out, this didn't work in the stock firmware and it apears doesn't work in this firmware either.
If i try to take out the host from the DMZ ie i select all and delete the entry i get a warning sayings fields can not be blank so i have to leave something in there [put 0.0.0.0 in for now] - is there a way to remove the entry via telnet or can this be fixed some other way ?
nvram set dmz_ip=""
nvram commit
UPnP is working without flaws for me.UPNP is broke [more details on this later]
Ping from WAN is not working <- this is what is concerning me.
UPnP is working without flaws for me.
What do you mean by 'Ping from WAN is not working'? You want your computer to give ping reply from WAN?
- lfbb
Hello Merlin
Thank you for all your hard work making the asus even better than it already is.
I have been looking at the tomato USB firmware and have found an interesting feature called TOR.
Is their any way you could implement this into the asus firmware perhaps you could include a URL list and when ever you go to these sites it uses this feature?
Hi,
i have a litte Problem with my RT-N66U running Asuswrt-Merlin 3.0.0.4.246.19.
The Firmware was running great so far. But yesterday i added some WOL targets(using Safari) and now the WOL-Page is corrupt.
I can't see any entries. And i also can't delete them.
I think i could solve the problem by resetting the router settings but is there a workaround so i can get the page to work again?
I saw that it was a known bug in an earlier version of Asuswrt-Merlin.
nvram set wol_list=""
nvram commit
Asus is working on implementing a new disk monitor which can be used to schedule automated filesystem checks. That work isn't finished yet, so they haven't exposed it to the webui at this point, altho if you are crafty enough, you can dig out a test webui that's hidden in there.
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