combo wireless and wired home network

[James Harrison]

> The ultra paranoid would put that AP on it's own network and require any 
> valid connection to be terminated at the firewall via a vpn.

If people are so paranoid about other people listening into your networks then
dont use wireless.

If its just a small home network, who cares if someone listens in.... If you
do have to hold sensitive information, keep it on a hard wired network or if
you are really paranoid dont connect your systems to the internet....



--- Keith Morse <kgmorse at mpcu.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Cowles, Steve wrote:
> 
> > Ed Wilts wrote:
> > > My laptop has 2 connections - one wired when it's on my desk, and one
> > > wireless.  When I'm wired, I'm on the inside.  When wireless, I have
> > > restrictions as to which ports I can go through.  The ports available
> > > through the wireless router are a subset of what's available on the
> > > inside firewall.  Nobody gets on the inside of the inner firewall
> > > unless they have a cable they can plug into my firewall/switch.
> > > 
> > 
> > I actualy want to implement a network topology very similar to have
> > described, even though I have helped all my neighbors that are within
> range
> > of my WAP to install their WAP's. :-) Anyway, last week I drew up a
> > current/proposed network design using Visio.
> > 
> > See: http://www.infohiiway.com/network
> 
> The ultra paranoid would put that AP on it's own network and require any 
> valid connection to be terminated at the firewall via a vpn.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > I was thinking of using my linux box as a bridge and use iptables to
> filter
> > on the MAC addresses/ports for the wireless devices. Shorewall makes it
> > rather easy to implement this strategy. Plus, it would be a good learning
> > environment for me to better understand linux's capabilities with
> bridging.
> > 
> > Now I just need to find the time...
> > Steve Cowles
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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