Secure Your Wireless with IPSec (O'ReillyNet) [LWN.net]

O'ReillyNet looks at one way to secure a wireless connection. "Wireless is practically wide open for anyone with a laptop, a wireless card, and the appropriate set of tools. WEP is defeatable. MAC addresses are sniffable and spoofable. In short, you need the next level: IPsec."

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Secure Your Wireless with IPSec (O'ReillyNet) - OpenVPN an excellent alternative

Posted Oct 24, 2004 9:08 UTC (Sun) by adulau (guest, #1131) [Link]

IPSec is a complex standard and sometimes interoperability between different IPSec stack is difficult to handle.

OpenVPN (http://openvpn.sf.net/) is an excellent alternative to IPSec and there is a client/server for all the classical free operating system but also the Windows proprietary operating system. If you are planning to secure a wireless network, think about it. You can make an easy mixture between ChilliSpot (http://www.chillispot.org/) and OpenVPN.... give you an excellent and useable security for protecting wireless network.

Secure Your Wireless with IPSec (O'ReillyNet) - OpenVPN an excellent alternative

Posted Oct 26, 2004 17:22 UTC (Tue) by ulajamb (guest, #16976) [Link]

I was just coming here to post a comment about OpenVPN, and here is one waiting already. OpenVPN is an excellent alternative.