On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 23:38:29 -0500 "Peter Nosko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote....
> pn] Thanks Ray, Lynn and Todd for your replies!
>
> pn] Yes, what I want is simply an access point for my notebook PC. Not
> just to be more mobile in the house, but one of the few irritants with
> my notebook is that the NIC connector on the left side near the front.
> What a PITA.
>
> pn] Todd, you mentioned you did this with a D-Link model. The Linksys
> has a WAN port, 4 LAN ports and an uplink port (shares port 4). Is this
> similar to yours? Are you saying that I can just connect my current
> laptop connector into one of the LAN ports and it will act as a hub with
> wireless access? I didn't see any notes about this in the users guide.
>
> pn] One last concern (paranoia) of mine is (of course) security. I want
> to be reasonably certain no one else can connect (I'm in an
> apartment-style condo) to this "access point" or monitor the wireless
> traffic. A separate subnet that can't get to my internal network would
> make the connection effectively useless for me too.
>
> pn] I'm not as concerned about a slight price difference. Is anyone
> here using the D-Link DLINK XTREME G WIRELESS ACCESS POINT 11G
> DWL2000AP with the DLINK XTREME G WIRELESS ACCESS POINT 11G DWL2000AP?
> Do you trust the security provided by it?
>
> pn] TIA for feedback.
I had some extra Cisco cards laying around, so I stuck on of them in my
Bering box.. Gave it a diferent subnet and used the MAC authentication in
Shorewall... I haven't played with sniffing yet to see how secure it is...
I am using WEP, for what it's worth.. If I need it more secure, I'll just
IPSec the connection... It's just the kids surfing the net, so I'm not
overly worried about the sniffing, just the neighbors stealing my
bandwidth...
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