On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 11:35:41AM -0500, Scott Lair wrote: > > Anyone using a powerline ethernet with debian? I've got > some difficult to wire locations so I thought I'd investigate > my options. I've tried wireless and it's a bit spotty so > I'm hoping that some debian folks have some good experiences > with powerline. I've seen them from Dlink, Linksys etc. and > from about 14Mbs to 200Mbs. If I can get about 50Mbs reliably > I'd be happy. I've got a couple of Devolo thingies (14Mbps - they're old) that work fine. They basically work as network repeaters, so a normal network card works fine with them. No special set-up required. > Any thoughts on security for these things? Ah :-) Since anybody on the same power line [*] can listen in, it should be treated similarly to an unsecured wireless network. My solution was to run openvpn on top. [*] This will only work when both transmitter and receiver are on the same phase. <span type="my belief">E.g. in the UK, electricity is normall 3-phase, and alternate houses on a road are given 2 of the 3 phases. So your neighbours are usually on different phases, which prevents them from listening in.</span> Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen karl@jorgensen.com http://karl.jorgensen.com ==== Today's fortune: Neither spread the germs of gossip nor encourage others to do so.
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