On Tuesday 25 June 2002 05:03 pm, Enrique LaRoche wrote: > > DSL (PPOE) <-Linksysrouter (192.168.123.230) <-Switch 8-port<linkysrouterB > (192.168.1.254)<-linksys WAP-11 Wireles clients > All the other lan clients are connected to the 8 port switch. > > Whadya think. Can the wireless clients access the wired lan? Via TCP-IP > Looks to me like its fairly secure.
I'm no routing or network security expert, but this doesn't look secure to me. With the wireless Linksys hooked directly to the same switch and no firewall blocking the way, theoretically a wireless client could guess the IP subnet of the wired clients (wouldn't be hard), add a static route to their machine and voila -- access to your internal network. You'd be much safer with a router/firewall in front of your LAN, preferrably putting the wireless subnet in a DMZ. The easiest way to do this is to get an old 486/Pentium with two (or preferrably three) NICs and use FreeSCO (http://www.freesco.org/) or LEAF/Bering (http://leaf.sourceforge.net/). - John -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
