I placed an order on an apple ibook last week and it's scheduled to be available for pickup midweek. I'll be acquiring an airport (802.11b) card at roughly the same time so that I can tap into the wireless network at university.
I've been considering either acquiring one of those Linksys WAPs or a Linksys wireless PCI card and hooking it up to my server so I can enjoy some newfound portability around the house. I had some rather poor experiences with linux compatibility of linksys NICs before, but the drivers appear to compile on my server. Kurt: you mentioned in the Wireless networking SxS that you're using some linksys wireless stuff. Did you encounter any problems getting the cards to work properly? Anyways, one thing that has been bothering me is security. Is it a little paranoid to be thinking that someone is likely to hack into a WEP-encrypted (home) network? (WEP ain't exactly stellar encryption, but I understand that you'd have to sniff the traffic for a while to be able to break through). I'm aware of NoCatAuth (http://nocat.net) which would appear to offer authentication support, but (a) it warns against the authenication server and gateway being the same machine, and (b) ipchains support in NoCatAuth is borked according to the TODO file in the package and I don't feel any urgent desire to update that machine. One other option that has come to mind is using some sort of (encrypted) VPN tunnelling over the wireless connection. Hopefully there's some easy way to make this basically invisible to the end user after the initial setup. Has anyone experimented with an approach like this? Would something like this add much CPU overhead? (server is a p233 mmx). David Aikema _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
