From: adam@address.invalid   
      
   Jim Beard wrote:   
   > On 02/05/2013 10:35 PM, Adam wrote:   
   >>>>>>> I'd suggest setting the router to hand out a "fixed"   
   >>>>>>> wireless address based on the hardware address   
   >>>>>>> associated with helot's wireless interface   
   >>   
   >> It's Verizon's customized Westell 327A, and I'm pretty sure it   
   >> can't do that (but OTOH I can manage this situation without it).   
   >   
   > Try Section 12.4.3 Wireless Filter Table on p 67 of the Westell   
   > VersaLink(tm) Gateway (Model 327W) User Guide.  You add the MAC   
   > address for Helot and set it to allowed (along with the MAC addresses   
   > for anything else you wish to connect) and any machine not in the   
   > wireless filter table will be blocked.   
      
   Thanks, Jim!  Problem is, I see it on that page in the manual (which I   
   must have downloaded from somewhere) which is dated May 2004, but the   
   screens on my router (received June 2007 from Verizon) and its features   
   don't match the ones shown in the manual.  All screens on my router show   
   the Verizon logo.  All mine has is MAC Authentication, just block/allow,   
   which I gather is easily spoofed.  OTOH my router has WPA2, while the   
   one shown in the manual only has WEP.   
      
   Of course I could buy a third-party router, but I think having "helot"   
   (and some of the distros on "eris", the desktop in the other room)   
   assigned any address within the range I've set for DHCP should be   
   adequate.  I think a bigger challenge for me will be getting the laptop   
   configured for public hot spots -- configured for both connectivity and   
   for adequate security.  Fortunately nothing to do with my laptop is urgent.   
      
   Adam   
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