Re: [Leaf-devel] Greetings from the wonderful world of NoCat...

2002-01-26 Thread Schuyler Erle
Matt Schalit wrote: > > On the Wireless Gateways, what are the network peripherals > on an average system? You need a wireless transmitter don't > you? You also need a link to the ISP, right? What's the > hardware setup of those parts? Yes, yes, and what do you mean by "what's the hardware se

Re: [Leaf-devel] Greetings from the wonderful world of NoCat...

2002-01-26 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 11:38 AM 1/26/02 -0800, Matt Schalit wrote: >Schuyler Erle wrote: [...] >As far as the "roaming ip problem", can't several people's last 24 >bits of their MAC address be identical? Yes, this is an interesting-looking project, and I too am glad to see it with a presence on the LEAF list. I saw

Re: [Leaf-devel] Greetings from the wonderful world of NoCat...

2002-01-26 Thread Matt Schalit
Schuyler Erle wrote: > > Hi, everyone. I've been invited to represent the NoCat development team > on this list. For a while, we had been developing an LRP derivative for > wireless projects called WRP. Thanks for joining. It's good to have more people working in the wireless environment. I

Re: [Leaf-devel] Greetings from the wonderful world of NoCat...

2002-01-25 Thread Scott C. Best
S: Thanks for your patience with me on this. :) > > > In a typical setup, no sensitive information is stored on the firewall > > > machine (or gateway, as we call it), so I'm afraid I don't understand > > > your question. > > > > My impression was that the NoCatAuth process verifi

Re: [Leaf-devel] Greetings from the wonderful world of NoCat...

2002-01-25 Thread Schuyler Erle
"Scott C. Best" wrote: > > > In a typical setup, no sensitive information is stored on the firewall > > machine (or gateway, as we call it), so I'm afraid I don't understand > > your question. > > My impression was that the NoCatAuth process verified this > login-password-MAC thing, and

Re: [Leaf-devel] Greetings from the wonderful world of NoCat...

2002-01-25 Thread Scott C. Best
Clarifying... > > 1. What were your design considerations in regards to putting the > >authorization info and server on the firewall itself? The > >alternatives are harder, but strike me as possibly more secure > >than putting such important stuff on boxes whose physical > >

Re: [Leaf-devel] Greetings from the wonderful world of NoCat...

2002-01-25 Thread Schuyler Erle
"Scott C. Best" wrote: > > 1. What were your design considerations in regards to putting the >authorization info and server on the firewall itself? The >alternatives are harder, but strike me as possibly more secure >than putting such important stuff on boxes whose physical >secur

Re: [Leaf-devel] Greetings from the wonderful world of NoCat...

2002-01-24 Thread Scott C. Best
Schuyler: Hello! Welcome to LEAF. I got about a dozen questions about NoCat (*great* name, btw), but I'll start with just three. Feel free to reply on-list or off-list or whatever you think is best: 1. What were your design considerations in regards to putting the authorization info a

[Leaf-devel] Greetings from the wonderful world of NoCat...

2002-01-24 Thread Schuyler Erle
Hi, everyone. I've been invited to represent the NoCat development team on this list. For a while, we had been developing an LRP derivative for wireless projects called WRP. After putting some work into it, we ran into the fundamental limitations of the floppy media, especially considering that ou