[ale] Putting wifi in the house

[Christopher Fowler]

If IPSec solved the problem the vtun solves then I would use it.

Mainly that both endpoints are behind firewalls with private ip
addresses. OpenVPN is another example of tunneling like software. That
will bring two machines on a private address closer together.


On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 14:03 -0700, Steven A. DuChene wrote:
> This morning after reading the message below I put "vtun wifi" into
> google to see exactly what vtun does. The first search entry it returned
> was a reference talking about
> 
> "vtun is a horribly insecure POS, with a number of well documented
> and fundamental flaws that will likely never be fixed"
> 
> Just a FYI
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
> >Sent: Jan 30, 2006 8:54 AM
> >To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> >Subject: Re: [ale] Putting wifi in the house
> >
> >On thing I do is use vtun but this only works in Linux.  My Linux laptop
> >when it gets on our WAP it will vtun into the firewall and all traffic
> >is set to go into that tunnel.  If you have Windowsthen you could use
> >IPSec or poptop.
> >
> >
> >On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 10:48 -0500, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> >> The time has come for me to get WiFi instituted at home and I need to 
> >> understand what *should* be done as opposed to *what people typically do*. 
> >> 
> >> I have a WiFi WAP that I bought on clearance about three years ago but 
> >> have only fooled around with once, and I also have a PCI WiFi card that 
> >> I bought around the same time that I haven't even used.  So, I could use 
> >> either the WAP or I could theoretically make one out of any number of 
> >> spare machines.
> >> 
> >> What I would like to have happen is for our laptops to be able to "WiFi 
> >> up" at home as easily as at Joe Blow's Hotspot and Cafe.  However, I 
> >> also don't want to be trivially eavesdropped on or leeched off of (over 
> >> the weekend, the newer laptop was finding two nearby WAPs from the 
> >> living room and gave me the ESSID of one of them).  If those two 
> >> concepts are not compatible, I need to know so that I can make the 
> >> situation easily manageable.
> >> 
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