Re: To secure WiFi networks

2005-09-20 Thread dg 
The squid solution only would encrypt http or ftp traffic if I'm familiar with 
the basic working, leaving out e-mail encryption, which would be quit an issue 
for the security-sensitive wifi users.

The Google solution is nothing but a vpn client with a google paint job.


On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 06:09:49PM +0200, Johan P. Lindstr?m wrote:
 On 7/15/05, Johan P. Lindstrvm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Good afternoon list, I'm just going to throw out an idea here and lets take
  turns kicking at it.
   
  I'm not too familiar with the inner workings of the needed technologies
  (sometimes a pro, often a con) but what if one would use a https proxy, like
  say squid with SSL/TLS support, to obfuscate the http traffic leaving your
  laptop over the WiFi LAN to your local OpenBSD box that runs the proxy, that
  would then with some magic serve you the pages. So that http traffic could
  not be intercepted on the open WiFi network. 
   
  Is someone doing something similar already?
   
  Googling did not turn up anything helpful here apart from the SSL support in
  Squid, but would the protocols allow something like this?
   
  -- Johan
   
   
 
 I probably shouldn't be kicking my own dead thread, but in lack of
 better knowledge...
 
 I just found someone who is doing roughly what I was trying to explain.
 
 http://wifi.google.com/faq.html
 
 Haven't tried it since I'm about 10-11 hours in a Airbus 330 away...
 
 http://wifi.google.com/download.html
 
 
 
 -- 
 // Johan
 

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mitc groningen 9736cp

Re: OpenBSD 3.7 on Soekris rebooting at random

2005-08-23 Thread dg 
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 07:13:40PM +0200, Reyk Floeter wrote:
 On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 05:10:08PM +0200, Dimitri Georganas wrote:
  Did you put this atheros card in one week ago? :)
  
  ath0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 Atheros AR5212 rev 0x01: irq 11
  ath0: mac 80.9 phy 4.3 radio 3.6, 802.11a/b/g, FCC1A, address
  
 
 btw.: could you also give us the exact product name (on the minipci card)?

It's a Senao 54g - but I will have to check for more detailed info tomorrow.

 
  3.7 would crash on ath0 with AR5212 in hostap mode every six hours or so. 
snap
  here yet in this dmesg.
  
 
 there were two fixes for hostap mode and it works for me without
 problems in the driver.
 
 one issue got fixed on 2005/05/28 (ath.c 1.29). the problem was a
 hardware counter overflow after some traffic and an uncatched
 interrupt which indicated the overflow and required to clear the
 counter registers. the second problem was related to receive overruns
 in the rx descriptor chain, which had been fixed as well (ath.c 1.31
 2005/07/19).
 
I checked 3.7 and found the card to freeze every several hours. Then I loaded a 
early june (maybe late may) snapshot and it froze on ifconfig up. The main 
difference I could see was the gpio being supported in the snapshot, something 
that wsn't there in 3.7.  Maybe I got caught in between two fixes.

I haven't time in the next 10 days to play with it, but maybe Olivier can give 
some feedback in case he tries the latest snapshot?

In case the problem remains and the card remains unemployed here I can send it 
to Germany to pursue a new career as developer assisting hardware?

wq