[wellylug] key signing events / wireless access?

[Valient Gough]

Thanks for all the replies.

I was a sys admin in a former life, and that doesn't sound too scary to
me (at least not from the point of securing the local network).  As long
as your wifi is outside your corporate network firewall, it shouldn't be
much different then having the rest of the internet traffic making it to
the edge of your firewall.  

Of course the separate problem is that you have traffic that appears to
outsiders to come from your network that is originating from third
parties over the wifi net..   In any case, that sounds nice of your
company (assuming it is intentional).

There are a lot of free wifi connections in Seattle - mostly home users
(Seattle Wireless network) and small coffee shops sharing access since
broadband here is typically a flat fee per month.   Linux has quality of
service modules, so it is possible to have hard rate limits and/or
packet prioritization to limit the wifi based data from impacting your
internet connection. Even on my single user home network, I have my
Linux router give higher priority to ssh then say ftp, so that my ssh
connections don't bog down from background traffic.. (there's my tie in
to Linux, so this isn't to far off topic :-)

Valient


On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 04:07, Enkidu wrote:

> Our corporate wireless network is open to anyone. However the
> corporate LAN is secured. So people can connect freely to the Internet
> over it, but can't get at the corporate network. That's the theory.
> Scares the &#$% out of me.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Cliff
> 
> On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:14:38 +1300, you wrote:
> 
> >there's also a few warchalks around the place, marking badly set up
> >office wifi that you can borrow :-)
> >
> >have a google for war-chalking, and then look for the symbols
> >grafitti-ed on lambton quay.
> >
> >
> >On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 22:59, Rob Giltrap wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 09:32, Valient Gough wrote:
> >> 
> >> > Are there any free 802.11a/b wireless access points in downtown? 
> >> > Especially nice would be something near to the Cuba Mall and Ghuznee
> >> > St. area, but I'll go out of my way for a good connection!
> >> 
> >> Take a look at http://www.cafenet.co.nz/ which should provide what you
> >> need
> >> 
> >> Rob.
> >-- 
> >Brenda Wallace <brenda at wallace.net.nz>
> 
> -- 
> 
> The complete lack of evidence is the surest sign
> that the conspiracy is working.
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