This thread has generated quite a discussion. For those interested, there is a new site for wireless discussion at: http://www.novawireless.org -0- inno On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 dgillettat_private 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 >
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