Re: About War Driving ..

[Roman Shirokov <insecure () yandex ru>]

Hi

You wrote 29 ноября 2006 г., 17:17:15:

> Hi , 
> I was wondering if it is possible to locate and catch
> a guy who is connecting to our wep wireless network
> and downloading stuff from torrents and using up our
> bandwidth .. 
> I checked up with arp scan and found 2 unknown IPs 
> 192.168.1.246 and 247 
> Is there anyway of locating the guy in a building of 7
> floors and how to stop this ..I have tried changing
> the Wep keys so . he is cracking the wep key.
> Any Suggestion People ?
> ---gaurav

You may try authentication based on MAC-address of client machine.
Although attacker may be able to spoof MAC-address too. I think you
need a complex desicion, based on strong cryptography (WPA2),
mac-address filtering, proxy-server (where you autheticate users with
login and pass), etc..

-- 
Best regards,
 Roman 
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