[mythtv-users] 802.11g router with VPN for wlan

Jarod C. Wilson jcw at wilsonet.com
Mon Dec 22 17:10:45 EST 2003


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On Monday 22 December 2003 12:12, Harondel J. Sibble wrote:
> From a few responses I obviously wasn't clear on the necessity for VPN on
> the wireless router.
>
> I don't care about VPN passthru, what I want is a VPN endpoint unit that
> ties the wired lan together with the wireless devices.  The wireless
> devices will ONLY communicate with the local lan and get access via the
> router to the internet over an IPSEC tunnel to the router.  So the router
> must has hardware endpoint support for the wlan clients and for in/outbound
> wan connections.
>
> TO Whit, there will be NO unencrypted wireless traffic.

A very good idea. Personally, I use an Astaro Security Linux box as router and 
wifi base station, allowing wireless connections only over IPSec. It doesn't 
have the switch ports you were after, but the cost is pretty low and you can 
set up as many VPNs as you want. Oh, and it does tons of other cool things 
also (proxy cache, spam & virus filter, etc).

So, what, you don't trust the Microsoftian security of WEP or WPA? ;p

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