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TELECOM Digest     Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:03:00 EDT    Volume 24 : Issue 445

Inside This Issue:                             Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Katrina and BellSouth; Interview With Duane Ackerman (Reinhardt Krause)
    BellSouth New Business Service Center in Gulfport/Biloxi (Michael Walker)
    Cellular-News for Friday 30th September 2005 (Cellular-News)
    Bell Labs Details 100-Gbit Ethernet (USTelecom dailyLead )
    VOIP Service Providers? (Dan)
    Re: Change MAC Address Can Change IP Address of a Machine? (Gordon Burditt)
    Re: Change MAC Address Can Change IP Address of a Machine? (Geo Mitchell)
    Re: Change MAC Address Can Change IP Address of a Machine? (John Levine)
    Re: Change MAC Address Can Change IP Address of a Machine? (Barry Margolin)
    Re: Change MAC Address Can Change IP Address of a Machine? (Jim Hatfield)
    Re: Change MAC Address Can Change IP Address of a Machine? (Robert Bonomi)
    Re: WEP Cracking Tools (jmeissen@aracnet.com)
    Re: WEP Cracking Tools (John McHarry)
    Re: WEP Cracking Tools (Gerard Bok)

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From: Reinhardt Krause <ibd@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: Katrina and BellSouth
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:31:22 -0500


Katrina Packed A Powerful Punch: Too Much For Any Phone System

      BY REINHARDT KRAUSE
      INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Hurricanes, even a Katrina, eventually blow over.

BellSouth (BLS) has a lot of work to do to recover from Katrina. The
Atlanta-based phone company also faces long-term challenges that are
here to stay. One is the rise of Internet-based phone services called
voice over Internet protocol, or VoIP. Another is wireless
competition, even though BellSouth owns 40% of the nation's No. 1
wireless carrier, Cingular, while SBC owns the rest. Wireless growth
reduces the need for wirelines, which can be more profitable.

And BellSouth risks being dominated by the two bigger local Bells. SBC
(SBC) is buying AT&T (T)and Verizon (VZ) is buying MCI. (MCIP) Those
deals are expected to close soon.

BellSouth Chief Executive Duane Ackerman recently spoke with IBD about
all that's on his busy plate nowadays.  Here are some excerpts from 
that interview:

      IBD: How well-prepared is the telecom industry to handle a national
emergency such as Katrina?

      Ackerman: I don't know of a hardened architecture capable of
withstanding a Category 4 or Cat 5 hurricane. There's going to be
structural damage.

      Those are tornadic-force winds. That's going to twist towers,
break bridges, knock down highways, put the lights out and damage
communications.

      I don't think we can build an expectation in the public's mind
that somehow that (damage) is not supposed to happen. That would be
dangerous. We shouldn't expect that there'll be no infrastructure
(damage). We've got to do the best we can to prepare and recover.

      Being in the Southeast, there's a great deal of preparation we
always undertake. Last year we had four hurricanes. This year Katrina
hit us twice, in Florida as a Category 1 and then again as a Cat 4 on
the Gulf Coast. Year after year, we're involved in (natural disasters).

      I've been in this business 42 years. There's been something like
53 hurricanes that have hit the Southeast during that time. What's
important is the ability to recover networks as fast as you can.

      IBD: Some BellSouth executives have talked about using a rebuilt
New Orleans as a showcase for new technology. What's the business case
for doing that?

      Ackerman: Everyone says (the city is) going to be rebuilt and I
certainly wouldn't argue with that. I think whatever they do, and the
way they do it, and the sequence in which they do it, is going to have
an impact on our engineering.

      If you look at the network switching fabric, when Betsy hit New
Orleans in '65, we had water but not to the extent of this time
around. We learned from that. All of our switching fabric (this time)
was on the second floor (of buildings) or higher. The switching fabric
is in good shape; it's dry. From a switching point of view, the
network looks recoverable.  (Switches are devices used to route voice
and data traffic.)

      Then, there are our interoffice links. We lost some 17% to 20%
of interoffice facilities. But we believe that, too, is recoverable.

      If you look at the central business district of New Orleans, the
French Quarter, a large part of Jefferson Parish, and the Garden
District, a lot of it is in pretty good shape.

      But a lot of the city has been underwater. Will we replace
everything in New Orleans? No. We'll fix what is fixable.

      In some cases, where the outside plant (wiring) is damaged or
not recoverable, then surely our facility of choice would be fiber
(optics, which transmits much faster than normal copper phone wiring).

      We will be looking at it from an economic point-of-view. When we
do put in new (equipment), how can we further our agenda as it relates
to building a broadband platform. It has to be done pragmatically and
reasonably -- and it will be.

      IBD: Does eBay's (EBAY) purchase of Internet phone service
provider Skype say anything about the long-term threat VoIP poses to
phone companies?

      Ackerman: My sense of VoIP today is that I don't think the
stand-alone VoIP provider -- and by that I mean the nonfacilities-based
VoIP provider (companies such as Skype and Vonage that don't own DSL
or cable modem broadband lines) -- is (going to destroy) the landline
phone business.

      I think there are places where VoIP can help the eBay, Yahoo,
(YHOO) Google (GOOG) search business.

      The cable companies are different because they have landline
facilities. They're able to add it to their video package. When I look
at competition, the first and most effective competitor I see is
wireless.  Second, I would say cable with VoIP. I would put
stand-alone VoIP providers today at a fairly distant third.

      IBD: How will the competitive landscape change for BellSouth
after SBC buys AT&T and Verizon buys MCI?

      Ackerman: I think about that. When I sit down today for a
competitive bid, or RFP (request for proposals), from a business user,
we have SBC at the table, Sprint's there, AT&T, BellSouth is there,
MCI, and usually one of the third-party integrators. I suspect that at
least two of those players won't be there the next time we sit down.

      We've been competing against AT&T and MCI for a long time in our
territory. I believe they carry the specialized talents that address
the high end of the market. I wouldn't expect that to change.

      Will we see more competition? I don't think so. We'll continue
to bring what we have to offer to the table.

      Large businesses in our territory represents about 8% or 9% of
our revenue. The high-high end of (the business market) is probably
another half of that. We don't control (have) those accounts
today. But we provide services to many of the state governments,
hospitals, regional banks. There are portions of the market where
we're well-positioned.

      IBD: Some analysts say that SBC's acquisition of AT&T will
create a business conflict with BellSouth. They say SBC will try to
sell Cingular's wireless services along with AT&T's products to
business customers in BellSouth's region. Are you concerned about
that?

      Ackerman: Let's talk about the wireless joint venture. Cingular
is a big business. It has 53 million customers. If it were a
stand-alone business, it would probably be in the Fortune 30, Fortune
35. That's too big a business for me to let fail. Given that scale,
it's too big for SBC to want to fail.

      We're committed to making sure it succeeds. The governance of
Cingular is 50-50. What we (SBC and BellSouth) have to say about how
it's run is equal. We both have a significant interest in seeing to it
that Cingular continues to grow and improve its margins.

      I don't see anything that would create an environment where we
would let Cingular fail. That's not going to happen. Will there be
conflicts at the enterprise (corporate) table? There are conflicts
there today. SBC has been in our territory a couple a years now
(competing for business customers). So has Verizon. In some cases, we
work with other carriers or partner with them, depending on the
customer. I think the industry is mature enough to realize there are
places where you compete, and you compete like crazy, and there are
places where it makes sense to partner. You do what makes sense and
you don't go around getting mad.

      IBD: Lawmakers in Congress are introducing new telecom
legislation.  It's unclear what will pass or when. What would
BellSouth like to see in telecom reform?

      Ackerman: We'd like to see less regulation. When I look at where
we'd like to go -- whether it's video franchises or any aspect of this
business -- if it doesn't need to be regulated, forbear. We've got
cable out there competing. We've got the VoIP providers in this
game. We've got all kinds of competition. We're losing (customer)
lines to competition. Why in the world do we need to continue all
these rules and regulations?

      Will it get done in 2006? I don't know. Based on what I've seen
(in proposed bills), we've got a lot of work to do.

      IBD: There's plenty of talk about wireless broadband. BellSouth
has some radio spectrum it could use for that. What are your plans?

      Ackerman: We're testing a version of wireless broadband in
Athens, Ga.  We're going to test it in a few more places, mostly
rural, where you may not have (DSL, the phone companies' wireline
broadband) available.

      I'm inclined to believe that if the costs are right, we could
get a very effective (wireless broadband) capability in areas that
don't have other forms of broadband.

      Whether it'll compete effectively with a DSL, a cable-modem
(broadband) product or fiber connectivity is less clear to me. We'll
have to see how the technology does in the marketplace in these tests.

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From: Michael Walker <michael.walker@bellsouth.com) 
Subject: BellSouth Open Business Service Center in Gulport, MS
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:32:37 -0500


            GULFPORT, Miss., Sep 28, 2005 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) --
BellSouth (BLS) announced today that in its ongoing effort to help
businesses in the Gulfport/Biloxi area, a local service center tent
has been opened to provide assistance to local business
owners. Beginning today, BellSouth representatives are available in an
open-air storefront where business customers can come and talk with
BellSouth communication experts one-on-one. In the service center,
business owners will be able to:

            Check specific locations where service is available Free
phone, Internet, and Wi-Fi HotSpot Access Re-establish phone service,
high-speed Internet service and more at a current, new or temporary
location Purchase onsite routers, modems, handsets and other equipment
Receive print and CD-rom copies of the Mississippi Gulf Coast area
edition of The Real Yellow Pages

            The service center is located at Prime Factory Outlet
Shops, 10000 Factory Shops Boulevard, Gulfport MS 39503 and is open
from 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. Monday-Saturday.

            "There is an enormous need to help small businesses in
getting back up on their feet," says David Scobey, president-BellSouth
Small Business Services. "In this service center, customers can access
the communication tools they need to continue their business and stay
in touch with their customers."

            About BellSouth Corporation

            BellSouth Corporation is a Fortune 100 communications
company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. BellSouth has joint control
and 40 percent ownership of Cingular Wireless, the nation's largest
wireless voice and data provider with 51.6 million customers.

            More information about BellSouth can be found at
www.bellsouth.com. More information about BellSouth Small Business can
be found via www.bellsouth.com/smallbusiness or by calling
1-866-620-6000.

            NOTE: For more information about BellSouth, visit the
BellSouth Web page at http://www.bellsouth.com.

            CONTACT: Rick Stewart, Regional Manager Tel: +1 228 868
5009 e-mail: Rick.Stewart@bellsouth.com Mike Walker, Director of
External Affairs Tel: +1 601 961 1160 e-mail:
Michael.Walker@bellsouth.com

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party/parties. Further information on M2 PressWIRE can be obtained at
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Copyright 2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
Copyright 2005 MarketWatch, Inc.

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Subject: Cellular-News for Friday 30th September 2005
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:37:27 -0500
From: Cellular-News <dailydigest@cellular-news.com>


Cellular-News - http://www.cellular-news.com


  Jordan Handset Imports Soar
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14246.php

BIS Shrapnel has forecasted the number of handset shipped to Jordan by
the end of 2005 to reach 1.5 million units (including re-export). The
mobile handset market is expected to continue exhibiting phenomenal
growth out ...

  Changing Times in the Smart Mobile Device Market
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14247.php

Canalys research indicates that the trends observed within the EMEA
mobile device market in 2004 have accelerated during the first half of
2005. Shipments of converged smart mobile devices, namely smart phones
and wirele...

  Nigerian Operator Plans US$2 Billion Network Expansion Plan
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14248.php

Nigeria's Vmobile has selected Ericsson as a strategic partner for its
'Roll Out Service Everywhere' (ROSE) project estimated at US$2 billion
over the next 2 years. This initiative will see the Nigerian operator
add 3,00...


  Buy ringtones on Skype
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14249.php

Skype has signed an agreement with Qpass to start selling ringtones
and other mobile content on the Skype web site. The Personalise Skype
service allows Skype users with the latest version of Skype for
Windows 1.4 to dow...

  EU Promotes European Radio Spectrum Standardization
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14250.php

The European Commission has presented a new EU strategy for an optimal
use of radio spectrum in Europe. The proposed EU strategy aims to
lower the barriers to access radio resources and to take advantage of
the synergies...

  Portuguese SMS Proves to be Reliable
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14251.php

The SMS service of the three Portuguese networks, TMN, Vodafone and
Optimus has a very good performance, according to a quality study by
ICP - ANACOM. Of the 51,538 attempts to send test messages, over 99.9%
were success...

  "Top ten" in Mobile Phone Sales in Telia Stores in September
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14252.php

Two new phones from SonyEricsson debuted on the list of best-selling
mobiles in Telia's retail stores during September. The models were the
K700i and Z800i, which placed No. 9 and No. 10. In other respects, the
list chan...


  Research In Motion Not Seeing Pressure On Selling Prices
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14242.php

Shares of Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM) dropped immediately after the
BlackBerry maker reported tepid second-quarter subscriber growth but
later recovered somewhat as investors absorbed its increase in
third-quarter gui...

  Singapore Mobile Phone Penetration Rises To 98.1% In Aug
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14243.php

Mobile-phone penetration in Singapore climbed to 98.1% in August from
97.5% in July, driven by the adoption of third-generation services,
while use of fixed-line services continued to decline. ...

  eAccess In Talks With Goldman Sachs On Cellphone Operations Tie
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14244.php

Japan's eAccess Ltd. (9427.TO) said Thursday that it is in talks with
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) to cooperate in cellular phone
operations. ...

  Ericsson Signs 3-Year Contract With SeaMobile
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14245.php

Swedish telecommunications equipment maker Telefon AB L.M Ericsson
(ERICY) Thursday said it has signed a three-year contract with
SeaMobile Inc. ...

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Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:01:45 EDT
From: USTelecom dailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com>
Subject: Bell Labs Details 100-Gbit Ethernet Over Optical Fiber


USTelecom dailyLead
September 30, 2005
http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/uUvMatagCqqewhnTeu

		TODAY'S HEADLINES
	
NEWS OF THE DAY
* Bell Labs details 100-Gbit Ethernet over optical fiber
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH
* BT sets 2006 launch date for IPTV
* Marketing to mobile phones
* Verizon inks Weather Channel for TV service
* Report: Cingular to forge ahead with FMC
* Liberty Global snaps up another European cable operator
USTELECOM SPOTLIGHT
* Reserve your TELECOM '05 room now! Deadline is today!
TECHNOLOGY TRENDS
* The future of the Web
VOIP DOWNLOAD
* Some VoIP customers run into number portability snag
* Analysis: VoIP business model likely to change
REGULATORY & LEGISLATIVE
* Ebbers files appeal
* Motorola exec calls for better emergency communications system

Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others.
http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/uUvMatagCqqewhnTeu

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From: Dan <dan@nospam.com>
Subject: VOIP Service Providers?
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:13:18 -0500


Hi,

I currently have Vonage for the last 4 months and have noticed the
quality degrade and problems increase.  I am thinking of switching to
Packet8, but would like to hear others' opinions.

Thanks,

Dan

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From: gordonb.ian3f@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt)
Subject: Re: Change MAC Address Can Change IP Address of a Machine?
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 18:33:34 -0000
Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com


> Is there any way to change the MAC address of a machine? 

Sometimes, depending on the network card and the OS software.
For example, in FreeBSD you might use:

	ifconfig de0 ether 01:23:45:67:89:ab

I understand Linux has a similar ability, and I think Windows XP can
do it in a much more GUI-ish way.  Some routers have a "clone MAC
address" ability.  This won't change the MAC address kept in the ROM,
so the command has to be re-done every time the machine boots.

> IP address is assigned by ISP. My understanding is that IP address
> is based on the MAC address of a machine, is that correct concept?

When using DHCP or BOOTP, the IP address may be assigned based on the
MAC address due to the configuration of the DHCP server (or it might
just take an available currently-unused one from the pool).  Note that
an unrecognized MAC address might be denied service entirely rather
than given a different IP.  This depends entirely on how your ISP set
up the DHCP server.

If a machine is manually assigned an IP address or it is being
assigned an IP address from a DHCP server that YOU control, you may
assign any IP address.  There's no magic formula that you can use to
calculate an IP address from a MAC address.

Gordon L. Burditt

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From: George Mitchell <george@m5p.com>
Subject: Re: Change MAC Address Can Change IP Address of a Machine?
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:50:15 -0700
Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com


jrefactors@hotmail.com wrote:

> Is there any way to change the MAC address of a machine? IP address is
> assigned by ISP. My understanding is that IP address is based on the
> MAC address of a machine, is that correct concept?

> Please advise. Thanks!!

At the lowest level, they are completely unrelated.  In a practical
sense, methods exist for assigning IP addresses based on MAC
addresses, but your ISP almost certainly has assigned your IP address
to your physical line, and changing your MAC address is unlikely to
have any effect on your IP address.

Changing your MAC address is as easy as buying another ethernet card
and substituting it.  For a PC, that makes it pretty trivial.  For a
router, it's as simple as buying another router.  But neither of these
will have any detectable effect outside your local net.

-- George Mitchell (obfuscated email address)

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Date: 29 Sep 2005 21:36:35 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
Subject: Re: Change MAC Address Can Change IP Address of a Machine?
Organization: I.E.C.C., Trumansburg NY USA


> Is there any way to change the MAC address of a machine? IP address is
> assigned by ISP. My understanding is that IP address is based on the
> MAC address of a machine, is that correct concept?

No.  Your IP address has nothing whatsoever to do with your MAC
address.  Your ISP assigns it from their pool of available addresses.
On my tiny network, when someone plugs in a new computer, it just
assigns the lowest numbered unused IP address.

R's,

John

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From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Change MAC Address Can Change IP Address of a Machine?
Organization: Symantec
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 18:41:16 -0400


In article <telecom24.444.6@telecom-digest.org>, jrefactors@hotmail.com 
wrote:

> Is there any way to change the MAC address of a machine? IP address is

On Windows I think you may have to edit the registry to do it.  On
most home broadband routers, you can do it from their web-based
configuration system.

> assigned by ISP. My understanding is that IP address is based on the
> MAC address of a machine, is that correct concept?

Sort of.  The ISP's DHCP server typically remembers the IP address
that it previously assigned to a MAC address.  When that MAC address
requests an IP address later, it tries to give it the same address if
it's still available.  So on broadband ISPs, the IP address usually
stays the same when the MAC address stays the same.


Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***

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From: Jim Hatfield <jim.hatfield@insignia.com>
Subject: Re: Change MAC Address Can Change IP Address of a Machine?
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:10:01 +0100
Organization: Insignia Solutions
Reply-To: jim.hatfield@insignia.com


On 29 Sep 2005 08:10:37 -0700, jrefactors@hotmail.com wrote:

> Is there any way to change the MAC address of a machine? IP address is
> assigned by ISP. My understanding is that IP address is based on the
> MAC address of a machine, is that correct concept?

The Mac address is a property of the Ethernet interface, so if that is
provided by a card such as a PCI or PCMCIA card, changing it for a
different one will change the Mac address.

The IP address is not necessarily based on the Mac address. If you get
IP assignment by DHCP (and maybe PPPoE but I'm not familiar with that)
you will get a free address from a pool assigned at random. You may
then get to keep the same IP address so long as the Mac address of
your PC does not change but this is not guaranteed. For example my
girlfriend's PC will get a different IP address if she power cycles
her cable modem, even though her PC's Mac address does not
change. This is a pain because my firewall is set up to allow her IP
address to connect to my POP3 server and so I have to change the
setting whenever she does this.  

-- Jim Hatfield

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From: bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi)
Subject: Re: Change MAC Address Can Change IP Address of a Machine?
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:51:54 -0000
Organization: Widgets, Inc.


In article <telecom24.444.6@telecom-digest.org>,
<jrefactors@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Is there any way to change the MAC address of a machine? 

Yes.

> IP address is assigned by ISP. My understanding is that IP address
> is based on the MAC address of a machine, is that correct concept?

Maybe.  depends on the ISP.

> Please advise. 

Don't mess with what you don't understand.   :)

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From: jmeissen@aracnet.com
Subject: Re: WEP Cracking Tools
Date: 29 Sep 2005 18:12:18 GMT
Organization: http://extra.newsguy.com


In article <telecom24.444.8@telecom-digest.org>,  <apngss@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Many people say WEP is not secure in wireless networking, and easy to
> crack the WEP key.

> Are there any tools out there to do the WEP cracking?

Yes, there are.

Are you asking us to help you crack someone else's secured network?

John Meissen                             jmeissen@aracnet.com

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From: John McHarry <jmcharry@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: WEP Cracking Tools
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 01:22:12 GMT
Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net


On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 23:25:40 -0700, apngss wrote:

> Many people say WEP is not secure in wireless networking, and easy to
> crack the WEP key.

> Are there any tools out there to do the WEP cracking?

Yes. Any other questions, grasshopper? 

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From: bok118@zonnet.nl (Gerard Bok)
Subject: Re: WEP Cracking Tools
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:21:57 GMT


On 28 Sep 2005 23:25:40 -0700, apngss@yahoo.com wrote:

> Many people say WEP is not secure in wireless networking, and easy to
> crack the WEP key.

> Are there any tools out there to do the WEP cracking?

Yes, there are.  But it wouldn't be wise to point anyone to them :-)


Kind regards,

Gerard Bok


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Since no one wishes to help apngss on
this question I am giving him three sources for him to review. These
are all easily obtainable from Google.

http://popupblocker/no-ip.info/wep/cracking/programs/  (and also)
http://freevirusscan.hopto.org/wep/cracking/programs/  (and also)
http://spamfilter.zapto.org/cracking/wep  

I hope these help you in your research on the topic.   PAT]

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