From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 7 09:39:28 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 6810C16A400 for ; Sun, 7 May 2006 09:39:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars.udo@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C5E843D46 for ; Sun, 7 May 2006 09:39:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lars.udo@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i24so805384wra for ; Sun, 07 May 2006 02:39:26 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=dq10FRCYzVivewsB4xZKupEc8Luhjx2DKPRBeu6VCzz59mYC351TNg3+EAdFiP3mkjPWTyaGqTaePHY6m9IzW8QoRJ6Qn/T41pBe/G8+Qtm/bF7/Q4lJiXwHI1v/oA7XyHZESSpPW6FRl5obss9RzZo6Ozo0wOiRQW9e8sbHh+w= Received: by 10.54.102.11 with SMTP id z11mr1086174wrb; Sun, 07 May 2006 02:39:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.106.9 with HTTP; Sun, 7 May 2006 02:39:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2fef08390605070239x5b79f986m6763299dd07dfa9a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 12:39:26 +0300 From: "Lars Udo" To: albi In-Reply-To: <445DBDE1.8040904@scii.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <2fef08390605070219i1b7acf96paa17087a0cde7bc5@mail.gmail.com> <445DBDE1.8040904@scii.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 09:39:28 -0000 Security is no problem to me, but the problem that i'm most worried is my budjet. If my laptop cant run wlan (for some weird reason that linux guy couldnt even name) so all the effort would be worthless. 2006/5/7, albi : > > 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 enoug= h > 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 >