Re: Networkmanager not connecting to known network

[Alex Janssen <alex ourwoods org>]

Darren Albers said the following on 07/29/2007 03:26 PM:
> The mac address is always sent as part of the frame.  This is how each
> station knows how to reach each other since the MAC Address is the
> only addressing known at layer two.  Since all hosts on the network
> have to know each others MAC it cannot be encrypted.  So all someone
> has to do is fire up their favorite wireless discovery program to see
> which MAC Addresses have an association and steal it.
>   
I did not know the MAC address was sent with each packet.  Guess I 
should study up on my TCP/IP.  WEP or WPA for me from now on.

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