Well, with WEP you can at least attempt to stop your neighbors from using your connection. While I'm all for open use, you do need to be concerned about your neighbor downloading music and then you getting sued.
Oh, and I do like the whole idea of SSH. I use VanDyke's Entunnel to connect my laptop with the mail server. It's very easy and doesn't clutter up my desktop like Putty when I just want a SSH tunnel. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Will Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 9:55 PM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Wireless Network > Google sent me to this well written page: > > http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/isaac/wep-faq.html > > Why bother with WEP when you have ssh? What are you trying to prevent? > > I have not gotten anywhere with wireless at home yet, but I've gone to Openssh > for all of my wired networking. I've gotten my third cheap wireless card, a > Linksys 802.11B this time, and I'm looking forward to seeing if it works and > if I can use it as a ssh access point. It would be very cool to be able to > shell in wirelessly and X forward through ssh.
