[KLUG Members] Refurb IBM High Rate Wireless Gateway

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 18:04 -0500, Peter Bart wrote:
> Hello All,
> The dumb question I have today is about the built in firewall on the 
> refurb unit I bought from itxchange. Following are selected excerpts and 
> the unit is probably about 3 years old. How safe am I behind this and is 
> there more configuration I need to do besides the standard setup? There 
> are a ton of settings under the advanced tab and yes, for those of you 
> keeping track is does work with Linux. More on my adventure with SuSE 
> later. I'm still trying to get it to talk to my dsl line and slowly 
> configuring it. The basic install was a breeze, it just didn't see my 
> internet so no automatic updates yet.

This is equivalent (at a glance) to most consumer grade WAPs,  although
you probably have more options.  To use wireless in a secure fashion you
must either use a VPN connection to tunnel all your traffic over the
wireless or use a WAP that supports WPA/802.1x where you can use TKIP
encryption.  The security provided by WEP is insufficient for 'real'
use;  but might be fine for residential use if you are careful to use
encrypted connections for things like mail anyway [ sure! sniff my SSL
encrypted packets out of the air,  have fun. ]
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