Thanks Sameer, I wasn't sure if the PDA's were as secure as PC's. It seems they can be a "weak-link" if they can't support all security.
Are PDA's/Smart card devices a security problem? If they can run the encryption and authentication standards the network requires then they aren't. (Some must be able to run the 802.1x - RADIUS, EAP authentication then?) And it isn't possible for them to use a PC as a secondary access point as it can only be in 'ad-hoc' OR 'infrastructure mode'. I think I've got it. If I'm wrong please tell me. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sameer Verma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "WLAN list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 9:45 PM Subject: Re: [BAWUG] 802.11 devices R. Simkins wrote: >This may sound stupid but, can a PDA's and smaller 802.11 devices connect >directly to an AP? > > Sure. I have a Handspring Visor, and an iPAQ (used to run Win CE, but now runs linux) that both talk to an AP with WEP enabled and disabled (both modes) >If so, do they have the same security capabilities as a laptop? > > If the capabilities are tied to WEP, then yes. If you are looking for a VPN type connection, there are a few PDAs that can do this. Others are just too slow. If you are looking to do a captive portal like nocat, do note that browsers on handheld devices don't work very well with browser based solutions. Nocat relies on a popup window that is opened via Javascript. PDAs generally don't do popups. So, that solution fails (supposedly, a cookie can be used to replace the functionality of a popup, but I haven't seen it). >If not, what are the security methods between them and the laptop? > I am not quite sure what the question is...are you comparing a laptop to a PDA in terms of security, or are you asking about how a laptop connects to a PDA and vice versa? > >Sorry, my noobiest question to date.... > > That's what lists are for. >Rob (never owned, used or seen a PDA) >-- >general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> >[un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Asst. Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
