Router. Powermat. Antenna. Expander. Using 802.1x Authentication. On computers that are running the versions of Windows 2000 that are listed earlier in this article, you cannot enable IEEE 802.1x authentication.
If you connect to an IEEE 802.11 wireless local area network without 802.1x authentication enabled, the data that you send is more vulnerable to attacks such as offline traffic analysis, bit flipping, and malicious packet injection. 802.1x is an IEEE standard that greatly reduces the security vulnerabilities that are associated with 802.11 by using standard security protocols, centralized user identification, authentication, dynamic key management, and accounting. For additional information about Recommendations for IEEE 802.11 Access Points, see the following Microsoft Web site: This patch requires Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP3).
For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Network Benchmarking Tool.