> As far as security goes, I am not using WEP.  Instead, my server is
> configured to use dhcp to allocate static IP addresses only to known MAC
> addresses.  Anyone attempting to connect to my wireless network would be
> unable to get an IP address so they won't be able to get access to anything
> anyway.  This might be simplistic but should be effective enough.

Not effective in the least.  The mac is broadcast and easily sniffed and
spoofed.  With that said, IMHO there really isn't a good security
solution for home users.

Has anyone checked up the the Freeswan's opportunistic ipsec encryption
lately?  I assumed that at some point they would have a windows/mac
client.

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