Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 12:19:44 +0300 From: "Lars Udo" <lars.udo@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: wlan on lowend laptop Message-ID: <2fef08390605070219i1b7acf96paa17087a0cde7bc5@mail.gmail.com>
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i have a litlle problem with all these wires running here and there in my flat, and as i got a woman living here with me.. i cant stand her complaining about those ugly wires allover the house. One beautiful day, i decided to get involved with wlan. But this one linux-dude said that my p233mmx/64ram couldnt run wlan. I dont know if he ment WAP/WEP-encryption a= s he couldnt be any spesific and that got me thinking if he even knows anything. My setup these days is following: 1Ghz/256ddr (Desktop mahcine, with ssh Xforwarding) via 10Mbit LAN, and my laptop just happens to get a lot faster when i run all apps on that desktop-pc. 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 i= s 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. If all goes well, my next sted would be to include one windows-pc also.. an= d that would need firewall for local wlan-crackers but somehow i dont believe that as a minor threat :) Lasse
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