On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Marc Ohmann wrote: > How 'bout wireless networking for a meeting topic? I am sure a lot of > people would be interested in hearing security solutions and ideas with > all the hype of insecure 802.11b networks. I am currently considering > an internal packet filter that only allows ssh connections over the > wireless net. This sounds nice but alot of things break over ssh and > X11 display forwarding. Does anyone have experience with wireless VPNs? > Maybe there is no solution yet but I still think it would be a good > topic of discussion. Put a gateway behind your wireless 'net, run FreeS/WAN on that gateway with support for X.509 certs, etc, and then config Win2k/PGPNet to connect to the VPN for all traffic. As safe as it gets.. I haven't actually done it this way for Windows, but I have set it up with Linux on the client + gw.. -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500