North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Wifi SIP WPA/PSK Support
I have actually been following this as well, and I have tested several of these handsets. Others have been impossible to source. Typically startups will attempt to bring a wifi voip handset to the market, realize there is no demand, and fold. In the particular discussion of WPA: Note that the two Senaos listed claim WPA support, but this is not available in the current firmware. There also hasn't been any updates to it in a year or so -- don't expect it anytime soon. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Frank Bulk > Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 12:56 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Wifi SIP WPA/PSK Support > > > > I've been tracking the Wi-Fi SIP phone space for some time, > and have documented all the phones that I could find here: > http://www.mtcnet.net/~fbulk/VoWLAN.doc > It's about a 7 MB file because I've included pictures of > these devices where I could find them. > > Because we just installed a SIP proxy server on our switch I > took the opportunity to purchase and try out 4 Wi-Fi SIP phones: > - Hitachi IPC-5000 > - UTStarcom F1000 > - Pulver WiSIP/ZyXEL P-2000W v1 > - ZyXEL P-2000 v2 > > The last two offer identical user interface and functionality > but a different shell. > > The Hitachi doesn't offer WPA support, but it does do 802.1X > (specifically EAP-MD5, EAP-TLS, PEAP, and EAP-TTLS) with WEP. > That probably means it can hand out WEP keys, and perhaps > perform dynamic WEP. The only phone to support WPA from that > short list is the F1000 with 3.60 or higher firmware, and > that's only WPA-PSK. > > If you look in the Word document you'll see there are other > phones that offer WPA support, but there not are readily > available in the North American market. > > Kind regards, > > Frank > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Mike Leber > Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 10:35 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Wifi SIP WPA/PSK Support > > > > I'm working on finding a Wifi SIP phone that supports WPA/PSK > that we can recommended to VOIP clients. As everybody knows, > currently most Wifi SIP phones support WEP which is > demonstrably insecure. For banking and financial customers, > or companies that are given passwords or credit cards over > the phone, this is a serious security issue. > > We recently bought a Hitachi-Cable Wireless IPC-5000 WiFi SIP > Phone from voipsupply.com after finding some web pages that > said that phone supported WPA (the pages were in German), yet > once we got the phone all it supported was WEP even after > updating the firmware to the latest version using the website > mentioned in the documentation that came with the phone. > > I've had a few people say that there was some sort of > conspiracy to keep US citizens from using secure phones, > however I found that laughable because the potential risk of > terrorist or criminal interception from having all Wifi > telephone conversations involving credit cards (let alone > social security numbers, bank account numbers, passwords, > what have you) in the clear would create an attack vector so > large as to exceed all other possible attack vectors... I > mean why work on cracking anything when you can just listen > to everybody in the clear (well virtually in the clear with WEP). > > So, back in reality, could anybody in the US that bought > their Wifi SIP phone in the US share a success story at > getting Wifi SIP setup with WPA/PSK? What model of phone did > you buy? Where did you get it? Did you have to upgrade it > to any special version of firmware or what? > > Mike. > > +----------------- H U R R I C A N E - E L E C T R I C > +-----------------+ > | Mike Leber Direct Internet Connections Voice > 510 580 4100 | > | Hurricane Electric Web Hosting Colocation Fax > 510 580 4151 | > | [email protected] > http://www.he.net | > +------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------+ > > >
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