At 04:55 PM 1/14/2002 -0800, Charlie Bebber wrote: > >Lee Roberts said: > >> There seems to be a lot of concern over security on wireless networks. >> WEP was suppose to encrypt wireless transmissions but it was quickly >> compromised. I don't know if a suitable, and secure, replacement for it >> has been implemented yet. > >I've read about airsnort and it's interesting (and pretty damn cool). > >I really don't know much about how the wireless network technology works -- >is it basically that one gets an access point and then you can have an >unlimited amount of nodes on that network (given you don't saturate it)? >
I wouldn't say that there's an unlimited number of nodes. Wireless is limited to a 11 Mb bandwidth. At some point, you'll have so many nodes that the network will become very slow and unusable. For a home user with 5 nodes, an 11 Mb bandwidth will provide about 2 Mb for each node when the system is fully loaded. I have a friend that has 3 machines on a wireless. He's using 128 bit WEP and frequency hopping. I don't think he's using VPN or SSL but those techniques would help with security issues. SSL costs big $$ though. He loves M$ too. Oh well. SSH is available for Linux also. I guess there are ways to secure a wireless network. As for hardware recommendations, I can't help you there. But, Linksys is popular even though their tech support needs improvement.
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