[MLB-WIRELESS] limiting access..

[Bryce Letcher]

I have my WiFi running on a win98 box. The same box has a LAN connection and
ADSL Internet is available on the LAN, but I don't have any concerns
currently because I don't provide any mechanism to route IP traffic between
the 2 NIC's. If I was to set that up I would go for one of the better
aftermarket software routers which allows for login authentication, rather
than trying to restrict access to the WiFi.

rgds
Bryce

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au
[mailto:owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au]On Behalf Of James Healy
Sent: Sunday, 23 June 2002 2:03 PM
To: 'melbourne wireless'
Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] limiting access..


k.. so now that I have my wireless network working, and I’m writing this
from my released-from-chains-lappy, I should probably start thinking
about security :-)

at the moment, joe blogs could war drive me, and although I don’t have
dhcp running, he could fairly easily get net access. Considering
netstats is at 8.3, this would be a bad thing
 (so don’t get any ideas!
:-p)

If I were to not worry about encryption for the moment, is there an easy
way to set up authentication to the wireless network? Will 3rd party
software do it? For the moment I’m talking XP, but I’m looking to
migrate to *BSD, so any discussion on the topic would benefit me and
probably some others!

James


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