Draytek Vigor 2600G Security

I have just installed my Vigor 2600G and it appears to be working fine.

I have a laptop connected via a wireless connection. I have set up 128
bit WEP and also enabled access control using the MAC address of my
wireless PCMCIA card.

What would a hacker need to do to spoof the MAC address of my wireless
card?

If it's difficult to spoof the address do I need WEP or WPA as well as
access control?

If so, I understand that WPA is more secure, does it also carry an
overhead like WEP? (I have a good strong wireless signal so the
overhead doesn't appear to be an issue).

I have set the Vigor to do a time check once an hour - is it possible
to use the time from the Draytek for the PC's on the network?

Many thanks.


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Jeff Gaines
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On 18 Feb 2005 17:33:25 GMT, "Jeff Gaines"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:


>If so, I understand that WPA is more secure, does it also carry an
>overhead like WEP?

Yes it does (more than WEP) and you're likely to find it problematical
on the Draytek kit - just about everyone else I know has anyway.

>I have set the Vigor to do a time check once an hour - is it possible
>to use the time from the Draytek for the PC's on the network?

No. The Draytek router does not have an ntp daemon.
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John Naismith

John Naismith wrote:

>>If so, I understand that WPA is more secure, does it also carry an
>>overhead like WEP?
>
>
> Yes it does (more than WEP) and you're likely to find it problematical
> on the Draytek kit - just about everyone else I know has anyway.

Whereas I have found no problems with using WPA on the 2600.

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 17:43:55 +0000, Hiram Hackenbacker
<"dcolledge"@interquad.com> wrote:

>John Naismith wrote:
>
>>>If so, I understand that WPA is more secure, does it also carry an
>>>overhead like WEP?
>>
>>
>> Yes it does (more than WEP) and you're likely to find it problematical
>> on the Draytek kit - just about everyone else I know has anyway.
>
>Whereas I have found no problems with using WPA on the 2600.

That's the plain 2600? I'm talking about the 2600V/VG series which the
OP has. If it's the plain 2600 then yeah no probs. 2600V is
underpowered IMHO so you will have problems.
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John Naismith

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 17:49:04 +0000, John Naismith
<john$(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 17:43:55 +0000, Hiram Hackenbacker
><"dcolledge"@interquad.com> wrote:
>
>>John Naismith wrote:
>>
>>>>If so, I understand that WPA is more secure, does it also carry an
>>>>overhead like WEP?
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes it does (more than WEP) and you're likely to find it problematical
>>> on the Draytek kit - just about everyone else I know has anyway.
>>
>>Whereas I have found no problems with using WPA on the 2600.
>
>That's the plain 2600? I'm talking about the 2600V/VG series which the
>OP has. If it's the plain 2600 then yeah no probs. 2600V is
>underpowered IMHO so you will have problems.

Erk - my apologies I read 2600G as 2600VG :-(
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John Naismith

Jeff Gaines wrote:

> I have set the Vigor to do a time check once an hour - is it possible
> to use the time from the Draytek for the PC's on the network?

'fraid not, but if you have an internal ntp server then you can point
the Draytek at it and set a more frequent update rate so that any
logging information gets a timestamp soon after a router reboot.

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Brian Morrison

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"Jeff Gaines" (E-Mail Removed) wrote in message
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>
> I have set the Vigor to do a time check once an hour - is it possible
> to use the time from the Draytek for the PC's on the network?

As others have said, nope. But why not get each PC to sync with a NTP server
on the 'net? I use this nifty little freeware app to do it:

http://www.arachnoid.com/abouttime/index.html

I didn't think WPA was available on the 2600 series. I got a 2600W, and
would like WPA

TheDragon wrote:
> I didn't think WPA was available on the 2600 series. I got a 2600W, and
> would like WPA

It doesn't even seem that a future firmware upgrades will add it - which
is a shame.

On 18/02/2005 Grant wrote:

> "Jeff Gaines" (E-Mail Removed) wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)
> >
> > I have set the Vigor to do a time check once an hour - is it
> > possible to use the time from the Draytek for the PC's on the
> > network?
>
> As others have said, nope. But why not get each PC to sync with a NTP
> server on the 'net? I use this nifty little freeware app to do it:
>
> http://www.arachnoid.com/abouttime/index.html


Thanks for the link Grant, I've filed it for reference :-)

I was just trying to avoid each PC on my home network rushing off to
get its own time, but I guess 4 PC's won't clog up the Internet...

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Jeff Gaines
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