[geeks] cheap 802.11?

[Gary Nichols]

On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, R. Lonstein wrote:
> I want mine broadcast: nycwireless.net  :)

Ah, sounds like a party to me!  :-) 

> You betcha. The AP sits alone on it's own leg of an OpenBSD firewall,
> hands out addresses from the not-publicly-routable 172.16 range, is
> NATed, can only go to public internet, all packets get scrubbed in and
> out, ftp and http are transparently proxied and just a few ports are
> open. Security starts at home :)

Sweet!  If only everyone was this careful.

> Might be fun if I find time. I see plenty of crap with snort on the
> public side. Interestingly, I didn't see much when the SQL Slapper
> worm erupted but still see daily scans from NIMDA and some twink in
> Europe who runs whisker all the time.

I find some of the traffic quite... interesting. :-)