[Gllug] Wireless cards -PC world

[mallum]

on Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 08:24:02PM -0000, Jake Jellinek wrote:
> Come within half a mile (or so) of my house, use DHCP and you'll be 
> broadband surfing without any need to authenticate. Sniff all my clear text 
> traffic if you like.
> 
> Noone in the area seems to have discovered this yet though, been running it 
> like this for about a year, never had a single unexpected DHCP request (or 
> sign of unusual network activity).
> 

I had the same problem. Am now denying unknown mac addresses via a little
iptables magic - though Im sure it'd wouldn't be  too hard to
spoof a mac address on one of the cards. Keep meaning to switch to
IPSec ( freeswan ) but its meant to be a bitch to set up. 

BTW, If youre thinking about wireless stay well clear of the dlink
cards - they are pure evil IMHO. Orinocos work well, but if you wanna run an
AP [1] then get something with a prism2 chip ( like a linksys ). The
sitecom has a prism2 chip but Im yet to get it running in Master mode
- I think a firmware upgrade is needed but that requires a firmware
upgrade with a windows laptop ( which I dont have :( ) 

  -- mallum


[1] http://people.ssh.com/jkm/Prism2/

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