Fwd: wlan on lowend laptop

[Hunter Fuller]

Forgot to reply to list :X

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Hunter Fuller <hackmiester at hackmiester.com>
> Date: 7 May, 2006 9:08:33 AM GMT
> To: "Lars Udo" <lars.udo at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: wlan on lowend laptop
>
>
> On  07 May 2006, at 9:19 AM, Lars Udo wrote:
>
>> i have a litlle problem with all these wires running here and  
>> there in my
>> flat, and as i got a woman living here with me.. i cant stand her
>> complaining about those ugly wires allover the house. One  
>> beautiful day, i
>> decided to get involved with wlan. But this one linux-dude said  
>> that my
>> p233mmx/64ram couldnt run wlan.
> Lies, all lies! My P200/32mB RAM with 6.0-RELEASE acts as an AP or  
> a client with WEP, WPA, etc with no issues.
>> I dont know if he ment WAP/WEP-encryption as
>> he couldnt be any spesific and that got me thinking if he even knows
>> anything.
>>
>> My setup these days is following: 1Ghz/256ddr (Desktop mahcine,  
>> with ssh
>> Xforwarding) via 10Mbit LAN,
>> and my laptop just happens to get a lot faster when i run all apps  
>> on that
>> desktop-pc.
> Good idea, does it lag at all? I'm thinking of configuring that.
>>
>> My desktop is FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE and laptop has NetBSD 3.0 with  
>> standalone
>> X & few apps just to survive if
>> my desktop-pc is down. I'm planning to change into FreeNX if it  
>> gives any
>> advantage, but that would require to replace my laptop with  
>> freebsd as it is
>> my favorite OS that has FreeNX client.
>>
>> Is it possible to keep up with this setup with changin all the  
>> wires with
>> wireless-future. If WAP/WEP is the problem, couldn i just leave it  
>> out and
>> use IPsec, or ssh instead?
> If you're really having issues... then yeah.
>> Or is WAP/WEP mandatory, or is it just enough if
>> i set tight firewall-rules on both ends of wlan with IPsec, so no  
>> one could
>> intrude into my system.
> Depends if you live around people or in the middle of nowhere. The  
> latter is the case for me, so I don't worry about security.
>>
>> If all goes well, my next sted would be to include one windows-pc  
>> also.. and
>> that would need firewall for local wlan-crackers but somehow i  
>> dont believe
>> that as a minor threat :)
> It'd be fine, you just  need proper firewalls, anti-virus, etc.
>>
>> Lasse
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