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Date:      Tue, 1 Jun 2004 09:16:51 +0100
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Brian Feldman <green@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Project Evil APs
Message-ID:  <200406010916.51654.dfr@nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040531231752.GB15637@green.homeunix.org>
References:  <20040530190600.5B64916A4CF@hub.freebsd.org> <200405310948.55864.dfr@nlsystems.com> <20040531231752.GB15637@green.homeunix.org>

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On Tuesday 01 June 2004 00:17, Brian Feldman wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 09:48:55AM +0100, Doug Rabson wrote:
> > On Sunday 30 May 2004 20:06, Bill Paul wrote:
> > > > > <jedi mind trick>
> > > > > You want to use ad-hoc mode. You don't want to bother me with
> > > > > silly questions about hostap mode because it doesn't really
> > > > > let you do anything you can't do with ad-hoc mode anyway. Use
> > > > > IPSec with ad-hoc mode and you'll probably get better
> > > > > security than any access point can give you in the first
> > > > > place.
> > > > > </jedi mind trick>
> > > >
> > > > Probably. Only if I can get this silly little WinME laptop to
> > > > do ad-hoc as well though. The main reason for doing this is
> > > > that my AP died and my gf wants to use the laptop in the garden
> > > > :-).
> > >
> > > Did you... read the little booklet that came with the card in
> > > your gf's computer? Sometimes there's a special control panel
> > > snap-in or custom utility to configure the card. If not, go to
> > > the control panel, click "system" and look for the device
> > > manager. Select the wireless device and check for driver
> > > settings. You might be able to set ad-hoc mode there.
> >
> > I managed to find new drivers for the laptop's card and it works
> > fine now. Now I just have to put some kind of tunnelling thing
> > together (I guess pptp is the only option for WinMe) so that the
> > neighbours can't 'borrow' our service.
>
> Doing a Windows-style VPN is pretty darn easy on FreeBSD:
> 1. Install ports/net/poptop.
> 2. Set up pptpd.conf (pretty much just the remoteip and localip
> options). 3. Set up ppp(8) with a "pptp" section, much like the
> following: pptp:
>  set timeout 0
>  set log phase chat connect lcp ipcp command
>  enable MSCHAPv2
>  enable mppe
>  set mppe 128 stateful
>  disable deflate pred1
>  deny deflate pred1
>  accept dns
>  enable dns
>  set ifaddr localip range ...
> 4. After modifying ppp.conf, add appropriate users to ppp.secret.

I ended up using mpd from ports/net/mpd instead - it works very nicely.



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