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problems at office with network hardware
I look after an office with a number of Real Estate people in it. Over the last year or so, we have had a number of network issues and they all seem to be similar in issue. The last issue that we had ...
You need to look at the particular smartswitch - I don't guarantee that all can do it. The thing about the SmartSwitch line is that they are not fully managed switches, but all offer some degree of management capability, at a lower price than a fully managed switch.
My first smartswitch, an FS726T did not support this feature, however my second & third, the FS728TS & GS108T do - so you need to check the capabilities of the model you're interested in.
As fas as MAC filtering & wireless goes - most access points support this, however, it should not be considered as a serious security measure - it is just too easy to bypass by spoofing the MAC address, which can be literally picked "out of the air".
MAC spoofing can be done on a wired network just as easily as on a wireless network, but the big difference is that you can't pick the "allowed MAC" off the wire without connecting to the wire and that is a lot more difficult to do than eavesdropping on wireless.
Wired networks can also be configured on a "port by port" basis, so not only must you have an allowed MAC address, but you must also know and have access to the port that particular address is allowed to connect on.
If you want a really secure wireless system, look at 802.1x authentication with PEAP.
My first smartswitch, an FS726T did not support this feature, however my second & third, the FS728TS & GS108T do - so you need to check the capabilities of the model you're interested in.
As fas as MAC filtering & wireless goes - most access points support this, however, it should not be considered as a serious security measure - it is just too easy to bypass by spoofing the MAC address, which can be literally picked "out of the air".
MAC spoofing can be done on a wired network just as easily as on a wireless network, but the big difference is that you can't pick the "allowed MAC" off the wire without connecting to the wire and that is a lot more difficult to do than eavesdropping on wireless.
Wired networks can also be configured on a "port by port" basis, so not only must you have an allowed MAC address, but you must also know and have access to the port that particular address is allowed to connect on.
If you want a really secure wireless system, look at 802.1x authentication with PEAP.
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