Re: restricting wireless access
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 11:15:39PM +0000, iain d broadfoot wrote:
> * martin f krafft (madduck@debian.org) wrote:
>
> > I would like to have wireless in my appartment, but I need to
> > prevent folks on the street from linking into the network. The
> > question is how. I want to prevent them from using my internet
> > connection just as much as accessing local computers behind the
> > firewall.
> >
>
> as i understand wireless, there is no solution to blocking clients
> connecting - macs can be faked, ssids are plaintext, wep is crackable
> fairly quickly...
While you can't stop them from connecting to the AP, you can stop
traffic from getting beyond it. Simply attach the AP to a firewalled
system that only allows authenticated VPN clients through it. It's
fairly easy to setup an ISPEC VPN.
--
Jamin W. Collins
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