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Old 10th Mar 2004, 06:12
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Ausatco
 
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Richard,

Am I correct in thinking that if DHCP is disabled on a wireless system and IPs manually assigned, then security is enhanced.

DHCP hands out IPs to anything that comes along, including intruders, so it would seem to me that if scroggs were to make his system work with DHCP disabled, as you have suggested, he'd be better off in the long run, wouldn't he?

Perhaps home wireless networkers should all do that as a further security precaution?

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