Re: Airport: Tx excessive retries
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 12:16:48AM +0100, Michael Flaig wrote:
> > By the way, I have no real trust in the wlan encryption (which AFAIK is
> > not very effective) and rely more on SSH, IMAPS, HTTPS and friends.
>
> Hi!
>
> OK, but many other Protocols are unencrypted and vulnerable to spoofing
> and sniffing...
As long as I do nothing important using an insecure protocol It should
not be a problem. The only unsafe protocol I use wireless is http unless
I miss one.
> If you disable WEP you should use something like FreeS/WAN ipsec VPN to
> secure your connection. OK, you have more overhead than without any
> encryption but less than with WEP.
I agree that WEP is still a little plus (very small) and would use it if I
was not touched by the problem which started this thread.
> [fullquotes are bad :-(]
Sorry for the previous one. I will be more careful.
Christophe
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