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<P>Joe,</P>
<P> I know only that wireless is possible and that 802.11 has been
cracked. I also know I can't drill any holes in the house I am renting
to run cat 5 cable :-(
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<P> I wish to make the wireless pretty secure, but I also live in the
outskirts and so I don't think the threat to a wireless LAN is as high
as it could be if I were downtown in a crowded "network"
space. Further, I am not against limiting connections to and from the
wireless clients to only certain times of day via the firewall rules
and crontab entry if I can figure out a way to hack that in also. The
intent here is to provide access to the internet for my kids so they
can use it for their homework. I can easily close that down when they
are "out at school etc." In that respect, it may be easier
to have a separate ethernet card for the wireless end. I can also turn
off the router end of the wireless modem when it is not being used as
it will be right next to my box. That said, MAC address is probably
the most secure way to go if I can figure out how to do that.
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<P> Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. And yes, this
is a learn as I do it project ;-)</P>
<P>Thanks in advance,</P>
<P>Ben
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Original Message dated 8/25/01, 8:02:13
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Author: "Joe Paleafei"
<mantaray@linuxfreemail.com></P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Re: [luau] Re: Router + firewall + NIDS
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=2>one quick
question... what method of connection are you using for the wireless
machines... restriction to mac address or going with ip? and what
sort of security are you looking at having on this wireless network,
because as you may know wireless is far from secure...</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="arial"><FONT SIZE=2><B>Subject:</B> [luau] Router +
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I would like some advice on how to do something. I would like to build
a router + firewall + NIDS from scratch to use for my home LAN. I was
thinking of building a box to act as a router and firewall for 1 Sparc,
1 VALinux box, one Mac, and one Windoze box. I envision a Linux box for
this that should boot headless. I also want this router + firewall box
to share one internet connection with all the others. BTW, the Mac and
Windoze boxes will need a wireless connection (wireless 802.11???). I
was also thinking of running Snort on the internal side of the router +
firewall to monitor what gets past the firewall. Because of all this, I
don't think that the linux router project will work, but the idea is
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-- and should I run a hub behind the firewall, or should I just throw
in some extra NICs?
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Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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