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Special Forums Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions Problem with wireless card Post 71169 by f1r3g0dz on Saturday 7th of May 2005 12:56:04 PM
Old 05-07-2005
Isolate

What you can do depends on what you have, but IMHO, you have to start with MAC isolation. Get into your router and define the mac addresses you want to allow onto your network. This works alot better than WEP, with all due respect, since spoofing a MAC address is much more diffucult than cracking a MAC addy. Next, you want to set your system to use YOUR connection by default whenever it is available. To allow someone else onto your network, you would have to make changes, but if that isn't very often, no biggie. WEP is, as far as I understand, not very secure.
 

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MAC_IS_PRESENT(3)					   BSD Library Functions Manual 					 MAC_IS_PRESENT(3)

NAME
mac_is_present -- report whether the running system has MAC support LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/mac.h> int mac_is_present(const char *policyname); DESCRIPTION
The mac_is_present() function determines whether the currently-running kernel supports MAC for a given policy or not. If policyname is non-NULL, the presence of the named policy (e.g. ``biba'', ``mls'', ``te'') is checked, otherwise the presence of any MAC policies at all is checked. RETURN VALUES
If the system supports the given MAC policy, the value 1 is returned. If the specified MAC policy is not supported, the value 0 is returned. If an error occurs, the value -1 is returned. ERRORS
[EINVAL] The value of policyname is not valid. [ENOMEM] Insufficient memory was available to allocate internal storage. SEE ALSO
mac(3), mac_free(3), mac_get(3), mac_prepare(3), mac_set(3), mac_text(3), mac(4), mac(9) HISTORY
Support for Mandatory Access Control was introduced in FreeBSD 5.0 as part of the TrustedBSD Project. BSD
July 7, 2006 BSD
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