kelsey hudson wrote:
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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.
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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.
Please elaborate on why you think WPA is bad. I have been using WPA2 on
my access point with no problems. In fact, with NetworkManager,
KNetworkManager, and WPA_supplicant included in the standard FC6
installation, it all just worked out-of-the-box for me with no fiddling,
other than to install the IPW2200 firmware.
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.
NetworkManager is now starting to support VPN clients, although I
haven't tried that yet.
Really, the cisco access points (NOT linksys) are very, very good pieces
of hardware, and I highly reccomend them to anyone.
cheers,
-kelsey
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