>From: jim gronquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:32:16 -0800 (PST)
>...My question is >the t-mobile service suggests that users take security >precautions, however, it doesn't go into any detail of >how to do this. The only thing that I'm familiar with >is setting a WEP Key. Not certain if I can somehow do >this with t-mobile. Anybody else using this service. >Any suggestions on what I might do to at least >minimize any security risks? I am not using that service. However, shortly before the BayLISA meetings moved to the Apple campus in Cupertino, I finally got nervous enough to set up my laptop (running FreeBSD) to use a packet filter (ipfw, in my case) that starts out by allowing only DHCP server traffic, then when the DHCP client code gets a DHCP lease, a script is run that replaces that packet filter with one for the IP address I just received. (This filter essentially only permits outbound traffic and responses thereto.) This is, of course, hardly perfect, and it's rather inconvenient in certain spcialized cases; however, I find it helpful. (The specialized cases may be handled by inserting "holes" in the rules.) Cheers, david (links to my resume at http://www.catwhisker.org/~david) -- David H. Wolfskill [EMAIL PROTECTED] I strive to make networks of computers that work. Thus, I avoid the use of Microsoft products: I am not a masochist, and I know that choices exist. -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
