From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 7 09:29:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB2E616A402 for ; Sun, 7 May 2006 09:29:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from albi@scii.nl) Received: from post-25.mail.nl.demon.net (post-25.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08B6043D45 for ; Sun, 7 May 2006 09:29:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from albi@scii.nl) Received: from aseed.demon.nl ([83.160.138.119]:13186) by post-25.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1FcfZc-000Ev3-QD; Sun, 07 May 2006 09:29:08 +0000 Received: from aseed.demon.nl (unknown [192.168.0.48]) by aseed.demon.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E46958110C; Sun, 7 May 2006 11:29:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: from http.aseed.net (unknown [192.168.0.50]) by aseed.demon.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EBA358110B; Sun, 7 May 2006 11:29:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.0.11] (217-19-30-147.dsl.cambrium.nl [217.19.30.147]) by http.aseed.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C78D158C6FA; Sun, 7 May 2006 11:29:11 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <445DBDE1.8040904@scii.nl> Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 11:29:05 +0200 From: albi User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lars Udo References: <2fef08390605070219i1b7acf96paa17087a0cde7bc5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2fef08390605070219i1b7acf96paa17087a0cde7bc5@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AV-Checked: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wlan on lowend laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 09:29:10 -0000 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