[NBLUG/talk] wireless dreams... [was zaurus [again]]

[augie]

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William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 14:22, augie wrote:
>>i don't have any different configs for the different wireless networks
>>i participate in. i just open up the laptop and go. most hotspots do
>>DHCP, so you don't even have to worry about anything.
> Yes, but what about when the wireless networks are implementing
> encryption?
> The few I have set up for my clients required them to switch between
> configs for different keys. I could have had the same key for all
> sites, but I thought by having different that may add further
> security. As employees from one location, can't simply be near the
> other and have access to it's internal network.

good point, for WEP to work you would have to have seperate keys and
configs.

now getting back to linux (it always comes back to linux...) if the WAP
(wireless access point) was a laptop running linux, and had frees/wan
(an open source implementation of the IPSEC protocol) you could
authenticate using the clients public key, thus the client could have
the same key no matter where they went. the communication would also be
a lot more secure.

of course all of that is probably way overkill for most folks, but just
to get the topic back on linux i thought i would throw that out there. ;)

augie.

ps...anyone know of a WAP that will actually talk IPSEC?


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