Ralph Shumaker wrote:
This PacketFence seems like overkill for a home wireless network.
People would consider the network I have at home overkill for most small businesses.
What would provide good security for a home wireless network of 3 XP machines, 2 of them through a wireless hub (model presently unknown)?
Install Linux over the XP install, for starters ;)
How could I prevent neighbors (or occupants of nearby parked cars) from accessing the wireless network? How can I secure the wirelessly linked XP laptops from being accessed through their wireless links? I need a working solution.
The best way I've seen to accomplish both of these require a Cisco access point. You can find used 1220s on ebay for a couple hundred bucks.
To prevent wireless clients from accessing other wireless clients, you need to enable PSPF (public secure port forwarding) on the bridge group to which the wireless radio is a member. This causes problems though, if you want to do things like directly share files or printers connected to a wireless client.
As far as the other requirement goes, If you want to keep the garden variety freeloading idiot out, WEP is sufficient. WPA is a hack and a kludge and generally pain all around. If you want to get fancy and keep all idiots out, even the more clever ones, you can directly connect your open, unencrypted WAP to a box (isolated network and addressing scheme); this box will run a VPN concentrator software and your clients will be forced to use IPSEC to connect to it. They will also not be allowed to connect to anything else.
Really, the cisco access points (NOT linksys) are very, very good pieces of hardware, and I highly reccomend them to anyone.
cheers, -kelsey -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
