Similar experience here. Most of our customers use a firewall/VPN that allows for IPSec tunnels on each end. If you ever have wireless clients (laptops, etc), then you may consider using IPSec client software that can terminate on an internal edge of a firewall/VPN.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joe Matuscak Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 8:54 AM To: Scott Overfield Cc: Firewalls ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Subject: Re: Wireless LAN security On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Scott Overfield wrote: > My employer and I have been discussing the option of purchasing a Lucent > Orinoco system to replace the current ADSL line between our two buildings, > which are only about half a mile apart, with a clear line of > site......However, I have very little experience with wireless, and I > understand WEP is easily cracked...does anyone on the list have any > experience with these devices, and how they can be secured? Any suggestions > or links that you can pass along I would appreciate very much...... We've been experimenting with the same thing. Our plan is to disable WEP, put a Linux based firewall on either side of the wireless link and run an IPsec VPN across the wireless link. We've prototyped the firewall parts using a Smoothwall/IPcop firewall distributuion with its FreeS/wan vpn. There are obviously other VPN systems you can run, but I think a VPN is the only safe way to go at the moment. Joe Matuscak Rohrer Corporation 717 Seville Road Wadsworth, Ohio 44281 (330)335-1541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
