kelsey hudson wrote: > > > 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. >
The above sounds like the beginning of a howto. Kelsey, I bet you could you post some good links to recipes for implementing some of the above steps, eh? Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
