Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 11:29:05 +0200 From: albi <albi@scii.nl> To: Lars Udo <lars.udo@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wlan on lowend laptop Message-ID: <445DBDE1.8040904@scii.nl> In-Reply-To: <2fef08390605070219i1b7acf96paa17087a0cde7bc5@mail.gmail.com> References: <2fef08390605070219i1b7acf96paa17087a0cde7bc5@mail.gmail.com>
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Lars Udo wrote: > My desktop is FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE and laptop has NetBSD 3.0 with standalone > X & few apps just to survive if > my desktop-pc is down. I'm planning to change into FreeNX if it gives any > advantage, but that would require to replace my laptop with freebsd as > it is > my favorite OS that has FreeNX client. > > Is it possible to keep up with this setup with changin all the wires with > wireless-future. If WAP/WEP is the problem, couldn i just leave it out and > use IPsec, or ssh instead? Or is WAP/WEP mandatory, or is it just enough if > i set tight firewall-rules on both ends of wlan with IPsec, so no one could > intrude into my system. FreeNX uses ssh already, and you can enable SSL in it also, so it sounds to me that it's a matter of restricting access from and to your wireless (ip-address/mac-address e.g.) (if you're really paranoid : WEP is cracked already, and certain setups of WPA are also not so secure :-) -- grtjs, albi gpg-key: lynx -dump http://scii.nl/~albi/gpg.asc | gpg --import
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