public wifi (was: Re: Firewall Planning)

[Jose Guzman <debian-listas-jose@iteso.mx>]

Menno Scholten wrote:
> Ken Gilmour wrote:
>
> > No point in having an external firewall if you have an internal 
> > wireless (open) network for anyone who wants to use it. You might as 
> > well hang a network cable out your window for anyone to use.
> I disagree. If you enable WEP encryption and restrict acces to your 
> local LAN based on MAC-adresses you can make it
> pretty secure. Of course you always open a door for wardrivers to use 
> but it will discourage the random git..
>
> If you want to go even further you can create a VPN over your wireless 
> network to ecrypt data.
>
> The above is just my humble opinion of course, correct me if I'm wrong..
>
> Regards,
> -Menno


 As a side note, this article from linuxjournal might be of interest to 
the list, it describes a clever way to set up a public access point, 
using a striped down version of debian (pebble):

http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6897






Jose