[KLUG Members] Wireless Access Point recommendation?

[Greg Mason]

my school has a 802.11b wireless network all over campus (they didn't 
wire the dorms, just went straight to wireless). to make it secure, 
they don't use WEP, but they use a Cisco VPN. it uses 168-bit 
encryption. I do have to say, that even though they use only windows 
servers here (sadly), the IT manager has a pretty secure network here. 
He uses lotsa Cisco appliances, for the firewall, bandwidth management, 
and some other things.

-Greg

On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 07:16  PM, Adam Bultman wrote:

>> Does anyone have any very specific recommendations that might help my 
>> palms
>> stop sweating?
>>
>
> Thwart wardrivers, but be careful to thwart would-be snoopers by
> implementing some sort of WEP key-changing scheme.  802.11a and 
> 802.11b,
> from what I hear, don't have much of anything for encryption, and I 
> hear
> it's fairly crackable (my Orinoco card won't go into promiscuous mode, 
> so
> I can't try).  On the WAP I help 'manage', I try to roll the keys 
> fairly
> frequently, and I watch pretty carefully for IPs that might pop up.  My
> WAP is in a prettty obvious and war-drivable area, so I sweat often.  I
> makee sure to encrypt all useful traffic just in case. [1] 802.11g I 
> hear
> has better security, but you are going
> to pay for it. Plus, I read somwhere there's compatibility problems.
>
> Of course, I could be wrong.
>
>
> [1] Is there a way I could tunnel to the linux box router with SSH and
> redirect all http traffic through it?  That'd be swell. I'd rather not
> forward X over the 1Mbit connection.
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