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gortiag
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 Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 6:24 pm Post subject: Shared VS Open in win, what's it in Linux? [solved] |
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Hey there!
I'm behind a wireless router, and tomorrow we're changing from "open" to "shared".
Open means that everybody can see the network from outside (with their interface) but they cannot connect to it (since we have encryption).
But, since this method carries security issues, we're changing to shared.
Shared means that nobody can see the network from the outside, when scanning for possible wireless networks. However, you can connect to the router when you know the hostname.
I scouted around some, and I found only "open" and "restricted"..
I'm using "restricted" right now to connect to what the router says is "open"..
And now the router will change to "shared" mode.. But last time we tried, it didn't work with the "open" mode on my machine to connect to the "shared" network..
This is kind of urgent to me,
Can anyone help me?
P.S. I use wireless tools.
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noup
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:18 am Post subject: |
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From the manual:
| Quote: | The security mode may be open or restricted, and its meaning
depends on the card used. With most cards, in open mode no
authentication is used and the card may also accept non-
encrypted sessions, whereas in restricted mode only encrypted
sessions are accepted and the card will use authentication if
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This applies to the authentication type (and btw, "open" seems to be more secure than restricted). Restricted in this context is the same as "shared" in the router, from "shared key authentication".
So, if you want to use shared key, use restricted mode. Otherwise (which i recommend), stick to Open. Now, encryption can use WEP, WPA... but this is a different thing.
Seeing or not your SSID is another different story (unless your router mixes these things together). The SSID can be broadcasted or not, hence shown or not.
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gortiag
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 10:26 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the reply, and actually I think the router mixes them, but I'm going to check just in case. Maybe that's all that is needed, to stop broadcasting the SSID. 
Regardless, I'm going to try to use wpa_supplicant if it mixes them, and try to fix it with that program instead.
It *has* to work.
EDIT: It now currently works with wireless tools in the mode "restricted"... For SOME reason, it works.
this is my etc/conf.d/net file:
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modules=( "iwconfig" )
essid_ath0=( "Rovtomte" )
key_ESSID="[1] s:PASSWORD key [1] enc restricted"
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.. I know there was another config file involved, but I can't remember which one.
If someone would be interested in knowing more about my configs, just PM me about their whereabouts.
"If it works, who cares?" |
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