also sprach Jonah Sherman <jsherman@stuy.edu> [2003.01.10.1935 +0100]: > The best way IMO to secure a small wireless network is with ipsec. You > can do this very easily with freeswan and a good ipsec howto. Just > create a encrypted/authenticated tunnel between your wireless machine > and your router. On the router, set the policy of the wireless port to > require encryption/auth. I run IPsec anyway and was thinking about it, but I do want to give access to friends who come over, and they usually don't have FreeS/WAN installed (yet). I have an access point, btw, so I can't really address a 'wireless port' on the router... > There are ofcourse other options...such as RADIUS... How would that help? I know that RADIUS is an authentication server, but how would it be applicable to this situation? -- Please do not CC me! Mutt (www.mutt.org) can handle this automatically. .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system NOTE: The pgp.net keyservers and their mirrors are broken! Get my key here: http://people.debian.org/~madduck/gpg/330c4a75.asc
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