Re: Wireless : best policy / pratice to start it
Wireless encryption is a good start, preferably 128-bit.
If you have an access filter on your router to govern which machines access
the network, enable it also and give the router your MAC address as its
first/only entry.
Not to state the obvious, but change your router's password from the default
and enable blocking for any questionable ports which show up via a quick
netstat -plant.
I have a wireless network with two computers and these steps seem to work well
for me.
R.
On Monday 24 July 2006 01:51 pm, Bruno Costacurta wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for the best policies / practices to start wireless networking.
> Briefly I use wireless in following locations:
>
> -home:
> wpa via wpa_supplicant
>
> -public (bars..etc..):
> no wep/wpa
>
> Both works fine. Currently I start a console logged with user root to call
> ifup with related params.
> Should I used root to call ifup ?
> I would like to keep a manual connection as I do not want to automatically
> connect.
>
> Hereafter my partial file 'interface'
>
> (snip)
> # wireless public places
> iface public inet dhcp
> wireless-essid any
> wireless-key off
>
> # wireless at home using wpa
> iface homewpa inet static
> wpa_driver wext
> wpa-conf /home/bruno/.wpa/wpa_supplicant.conf
> address 192.168.1.4
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> gateway 192.168.1.1
> (snip)
>
>
> Bye,
> Bruno
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