Wireless security

2003-02-18 Thread David Aikema
I placed an order on an apple ibook last week and it's scheduled to be available for pickup midweek. I'll be acquiring an airport (802.11b) card at roughly the same time so that I can tap into the wireless network at university. I've been considering either acquiring one of those Linksys WAPs

Re: Wireless security

2003-02-18 Thread Bill Day
Dave, I use DHCPd on my home network, and assign IP only to a valid mac address. That ontop of the encrypted wireless should be plenty at home.. I am not sure how the univ. runs their setup, but should give plenty protection, alon with a firewall. Bill Day Linux 2.2.20-1tr i586 8:10am up 44

Re: XFree 4.3.0 Tentative Schedule

2003-02-18 Thread Rick Sivernell
Lonnie / Kurt Is this r4elease a one that we should be moving to? What are your thoghts about 4.3, enlighten educate us. cheers -- Rick Sivernell Dallas, Texas 75287 972 306-2296 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caldera Open Linux eWorkStation 3.1.1 Registered Linux User .~. / v \ /( _ )\ ^ ^

Re: XFree 4.3.0 Tentative Schedule

2003-02-18 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Rick Sivernell wrote: % Lonnie / Kurt % %Is this r4elease a one that we should be moving to? % What are your thoghts about 4.3, enlighten educate us. % cheers 4.3 has better support for a number of cards, better anti-aliasing support, and improved hardware detection --

Re: Wireless security

2003-02-18 Thread David Aikema
On February 18, 2003 06:35 am, Bill Day wrote: Dave, I use DHCPd on my home network, and assign IP only to a valid mac address. That ontop of the encrypted wireless should be plenty at home.. It isn't exactly hard to fake a mac address (unless you're running win 9x)... see man ifconfig for

Re: Wireless security

2003-02-18 Thread Susan Macchia
I have a Linksys wireless network pc card on a laptop with Redhat 8.0 card. Works fairly well and I struggled with setup because RH didn't come with all the sources needed for compiling wlan-ng. But then I found this page: http://linux.oldcrank.com/tips/wpc11/ which contained a simple way w/o

Hey Llama!

2003-02-18 Thread Jerry McBride
Did you just send me a windows game? I just received an email containing a small html message, a windows app attachment named picacu.exe and a text file named w9xpush.txt... I never saw one of these before. More than likely someone impersonating our beloved Llama with a virus or trojan...

Re: Hey Llama!

2003-02-18 Thread Ken Moffat
Jerry McBride wrote: Did you just send me a windows game? I just received an email containing a small html message, a windows app attachment named picacu.exe and a text file named w9xpush.txt... I never saw one of these before. More than likely someone impersonating our beloved Llama with a