If you want to have a secure, encrypted wireless AP for your use and also for use by an outside party without giving away the keys to your system, then you need two. If you don't care about having your neighbors or friends on your system then you can just do one.
On 1/18/06, Thane Sherrington (S) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 11:03 AM 18/01/2006, Wayne Johnson wrote: > >At 07:13 AM 1/18/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: > >>Wouldn't the wired router protect me from sniffing and ARP > >>poisoning in the wired LAN? > > > >I don't believe you're seeing the whole picture. I believe this is > >what he's trying to say. > > > > Open Wireless Router. > > /\ > > | > >Modem---->Wired Router------>Open Wireless Router > > | > > V > > Wired LAN I want to protect > > How does that differ security-wise from what I posted? > > Modem---->Wired Router------>Open Wireless Router > | > V > Wired LAN I want to protect > > You've added another Open Wireless router, but I don't need that. I > just want my current wired LAN plus an open Wireless, and I don't > want people on the open Wireless able to access my wireless LAN (via > sniffing - which should be impossible due to the switches - or ARP > poisoning - which should be impossible due to the routers.) > > He was using a wired router and two wireless LANs, but I don't have > the same setup, so I was thinking I could skip one router. > > T > > -- Brian
