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Re: Custom Wireless Solution

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Sprickman)
Wed Apr 25 23:23:17 2001

Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 23:17:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>
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On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, John Kristoff wrote:

> Mike Schoenecker wrote:
> > if one is prone to be paranoia, using both [1] and [2] probably makes sense.
>
> Except that it is currently impractical for many sites since it requires
> an entirely Cisco end-to-end shop including the Cisco (or Microsoft's)
> RADIUS server.

Since all these products are bridges, wouldn't it make sense to just have
an Open/FreeBSD box at either end with two nics?  Both os's can do IPSEC
tunnels, and both end nodes will only be bridging a single MAC address.

You end up with a "clean" network design (since you've got an actual
endpoint or 'router') and you can encrypt your traffic with a bit more
confidence than with the WEP stuff...

Charles

> John
>



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