On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Anna <ascho...@gmail.com> wrote: > I like to leave the AP open on my test XS 0.6 at home, but ran into an issue > with that yesterday. I noticed the lights on my router blinking like crazy, > so I did a live tail on the squid access log to see what was going on. > > tail -f /var/log/squid/access.log > > And oh, my goodness.
Leaving an access point open is getting more and more questionable. Because of the tangle of issues that can surface it does pay to setup basic encryption and passwords. You proxy logs will help you a lot if there are issues. My strategy has been to give the access point an interesting name... A friendly name might be "AskAnna" another name might be informative "GoAwayBob". Names like "password is guest" also work. Pass phrases need not be hard to remember. Examples might be: "I love OLPC!" or "AnnaSaysWelcome". The reason to establish basic encryption is that without encryption it is too easy for some passer by to snoop up pass words to web sites. None the WiFi crypto systems are terribly strong but they do keep the riff raff out. -- T o m M i t c h e l l mitch-at-niftyegg-dot-com "My lifetime goal is to be the kind of person my dogs think I am." _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel