On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 11:26 +1000, Michael Fox wrote:
> I think you need to tell us more about this setup of yours. Sounds
> very interesting :)

Nothing really that special; I can't get ADSL at my current residence so
I'm running a WEP'ed wireless link (utilising Debian+HostAP+Prism cards)
up the road to a client of mine who can.  As WEP is bloody awful, I also
tunnel an encrypted connection that everything is routed over (and all
traffic is encapsulated); pptpd was what I found worked well at the time
writing/packaging the solution (over 2 years ago now, ignoring routine
upgrades).

The internal connections are just for wireless (a second Prism/HostAP
card); wifi hands out dhcp, but you're on a lone nonrouted subnet until
you VPN in from a client machine (and you get an IP on the local
ethernet subnet).  I much prefer tunneling/encrypting each individual
connection rather than using a shared encryption scheme such as WEP; I
don't want other users sniffing my traffic.

I'm in the midst of moving it to a completely different solution right
now, actually, which probably is a bit more interesting :-)

R

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