[ale] Putting wifi in the house

Christopher Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Mon Jan 30 10:54:32 EST 2006


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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