WEP

Wired Equivalent Protection

• Original wireless security standard
• Universally supported
• Prevents casual users from abusing your network

Wi-fi Protected Access-Extensible Authentication Protocol

• AKA WPA Enterprise
• Relies on back-end server running R.A.D.I.U.S(remote authentication dial in user service)
• Flexible authentication
• RADIUS server can authenticate user to AD DS or by verifying a certificate.

AKA Directional antenna

• very directional
• used for specific areas, point the antenna at location desired.

• network policy server
• acts as RADIUS server that is integrated tightly with AD/DS

• omnidirectional antenna
• broadcasts in all directioin relatively equally

ipconfig/release

ipconfig/renew

• uses imcp to test connectivity to a remote host and ALL routers between you and that remote host
• use -d after to speed up PathPing

• tests whether a specific network service is running
• portqry-n (destination)-e(port number)

• wi-fi protected access
• not universally supported
• win 7 supports 2 WPA types:
• WPA-PSK
• WPA-EAP

• service set identifier
• the name given to a wireless network

• displays path and measures transit delays of packets across an IP network
• output the list of transversed routers in simple text format w/ timing info.

• Automatic Private IP Addressing
• ranges from 169.254.0.0 to 169.253.255.255
• windows 7 assigns when PC is configured to connect via DHCP but cannot connect to the DHCP server

• wifi protected access 2
• (IEEE 802.1.1)
• updated version of WPA
• offers improved security and better protection
• available in both wpa2-psk and wpa2-eap

• wifi protected access protected pre shared key
• or WPA Personal
• 8-63 character key required which is then converted to a 256-bit key