On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 07:58:40PM -0800, SF Enjoy wrote: > I have a dsl line and am considering sharing it with my neighbors. My > roommate is against the idea based on security concerns (we now run on > a trusted network with just the two of us). I'm not looking for the > answer to "Is sharing wireless with others moral?", which I would > guess is discussed on this list. My questions: > > Is this dangerous? (to my computer, or security) Do I open myself up > to security problems by sharing the connection that would not exist if > I kept the broadband to myself?
Of course, you do. :-) I haven't seen anyone address what *I* would consider to be the major issue in this sort of setup: you're likely to use it with out of the box hardware, like, for example, a Linky BEFSW11-4... and that box will put the wireless connections on the back side of the NAT and filtering, IE: with your wired machines. This is what you get for using Commercial Off The Shelf hardware. Now, as several posters suggested (but didn't go into, I thnk, enough detail for your level of knowledge), yes, it *is* possible to do this. Unfortunately, it requires a NAT box that can maintain two *separate* private networks on it's back side, preferably with firewalling. Basically, this means "build a Linux box and install Smoothwall" or your other favorite firewall Linux distro, and teach it how; it will be *much* pricier to do it with (a) commercial box(es). Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 Come see Linux Gazette in our new home: www.linuxgazette.net! -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
