RE: Wireless Lans give EVERYONE ACCESS

[dgillett () deepforest org]

  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