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From: Hunter Fuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 7 May, 2006 9:08:33 AM GMT
To: "Lars Udo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: wlan on lowend laptop
On 07 May 2006, at 9:19 AM, Lars Udo wrote:
i have a litlle problem with all these wires running here and
there in my
flat, and as i got a woman living here with me.. i cant stand her
complaining about those ugly wires allover the house. One
beautiful day, i
decided to get involved with wlan. But this one linux-dude said
that my
p233mmx/64ram couldnt run wlan.
Lies, all lies! My P200/32mB RAM with 6.0-RELEASE acts as an AP or
a client with WEP, WPA, etc with no issues.
I dont know if he ment WAP/WEP-encryption as
he couldnt be any spesific and that got me thinking if he even knows
anything.
My setup these days is following: 1Ghz/256ddr (Desktop mahcine,
with ssh
Xforwarding) via 10Mbit LAN,
and my laptop just happens to get a lot faster when i run all apps
on that
desktop-pc.
Good idea, does it lag at all? I'm thinking of configuring that.
My desktop is FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE and laptop has NetBSD 3.0 with
standalone
X & few apps just to survive if
my desktop-pc is down. I'm planning to change into FreeNX if it
gives any
advantage, but that would require to replace my laptop with
freebsd as it is
my favorite OS that has FreeNX client.
Is it possible to keep up with this setup with changin all the
wires with
wireless-future. If WAP/WEP is the problem, couldn i just leave it
out and
use IPsec, or ssh instead?
If you're really having issues... then yeah.
Or is WAP/WEP mandatory, or is it just enough if
i set tight firewall-rules on both ends of wlan with IPsec, so no
one could
intrude into my system.
Depends if you live around people or in the middle of nowhere. The
latter is the case for me, so I don't worry about security.
If all goes well, my next sted would be to include one windows-pc
also.. and
that would need firewall for local wlan-crackers but somehow i
dont believe
that as a minor threat :)
It'd be fine, you just need proper firewalls, anti-virus, etc.
Lasse
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