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
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