[Site available] :: RE: Wireless Lans give EVERYONE ACCESS

[Inno Eroraha <inno () patriot net>]

This thread has generated quite a discussion. For those interested, there
is a new site for wireless discussion at: http://www.novawireless.org

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inno

On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 dgillett () deepforest org wrote:

>   VPN makes it possible to assure yourself that only legitimate users
> are coming in through your wireless network to reach your trusted
> servers, etc.
>
>   However, it seems likely to me that a hostile operative could,
> without successfully authenticating to the VPN, still swamp your
> wireless access points with traffic.  Paradoxically, this DoS attack
> may actually require the attacker to be physically nearby....
>
> David Gillett
>
>
> On 13 Aug 2001, at 13:35, Jonas Thambert wrote:
>
> > ofcourse anti virii/p.firewall protection is a must. Setting
> > up anti-spoof protection is also regular sysadmin duty, even
> > if its not a WLAN interface.
> >
> > anyway the only usage for WLAN as I see it is in combination with VPN.
> >
> > http://www.cs.rice.edu/~astubble/wep/wep_attack.html
> >
> > jonas