I suspect many/most of you do too. Looking through the charter and arch doc, my primary problem is that I'm probably way off charter, but I'm not sure so I'll ask.
When I'm out and about, there are zillions of wifi opportunities. Who runs them and for what reason, I haven't the foggiest idea. Some of them are undoubtedly malicious, many more poorly run. So it's fairly crazy to use them. But like a lot of people, connectivity often trumps sanity. What I'd really like is to not feel dirty when I do that. The most obvious thing to do is to use a VPN, but I don't have a corporate mothership these days so I'd have to set all of that up, and it would most likely have to be through my home linux box since my el cheapo home router doesn't know about IPsec afaik. Not to mention that even if *I* could move heaven and earth to protect my posterior, the vast unwashed masses are not so fortunate. So why did I come to homenet to complain? Well, it's because I can't think of another place that I'd reasonably place the other end of my VPN but on my home net. As far as I can tell, there aren't many places to dogleg my traffic to avoid access network fun and games. My ISP doesn't care about this problem let alone doing anything fancy like running a mobile ip home agent which would be even better of course. Nor do I see others, so I'm not holding my breath. Yes, I know the performance would be miserable given the asymmetric nature of cable/dsl. But it would at least not allow $EVILSHOP to do nasty things with my unencrypted traffic, and traffic analysis on the rest. That said, even if this is widely off charter, another aspect may not: if we have lots of new services in our homes I may very well want to access them remotely. If VPN's are good enough for corpro, then mightn't the same be true for my home networks too? Mike _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
