[geeks] Secure 802.11b?

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 03:23, Scott Howard wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 05:01:41PM -0500, Michael Dombrowski wrote:
> > I've been thinking of setting up 802.11b here and want to protect my 
> > network against snoopers. My idea is something like:
> > 
> > Internal Network->802.11b Firewall->Dumb Access Point->Laptop
> > 
> > In my setup the Firewall machine would block off every port except 
> > the VPN one, the laptop or other client computer would connect to the 
> > main network via the VPN so it would be just like it's on the 
> > network. The firewall machine would also run a dhcp server. Is this 
> > method viable or are there easier ways to do what I want? I also 
> > could consolidate the access point + firewall into one machine with 
> > NetBSD + IPX + PC Card swapbox but then I lose some flexibility in 
> > the future.
> 
> There's only one way to do it securely - VPN of some form. Depending on
> your choice of client and firewall/router software the best options are
> either PPTP (trivial to setup, but MS-centric), or IPSec (more difficult,

Obviously I'm missing something here...  How can it be trivial to set up
if it's MS-centric?  It would at least require getting a working M$
Windows install, which is FAR from trivial, if you want to be able to do
any real work.
	Greg

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