On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 13:12, Craig White wrote: > On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 10:56, Scot L. Harris wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 11:24, Craig White wrote: > > > On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 01:01, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > > Sorry.. Didn't finish my email .. see below > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 23:09, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > > > > > I have 2 network cards. One is a wifi eth1 and another's LAN eth0. > > > > > > > Both of these have different ip addresses and I just need them to > > > > > > > be routed differently. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > eg: eth1 10.0.0.1 gw 10.0.0.10 <-company lan > > > > > > > eth2 192.168.0.1 gw 192.168.0.10 <- wifi/internet > > > > Good explanation Craig. > > > > One thing that bothers me however, does the IT group at this company know > > about a wifi interface being attached to their network? Due to the routing > > question being asked I wonder if even minimal security precautions have been > > taken to secure this wifi node? > > > > I was asked one time to connect up a wifi node to my company intranet and > > refused at that time since I did not have the additional firewalls available > > or the time needed to teach the users how to use ssh and/or VPN to the > > internal network. > --- > security ;-) > > yeah well, the question was about routing - not security. > > Clearly a network administrator concerned with security would have > plenty to say about this. In fact, that may already be the case...a > network administrator with a watchful eye on security wouldn't allow any > access by MAC addresses that weren't already registered. Thus even if > the default gateway were set properly on the wireless router and on any > computers using the wireless router, you still wouldn't get anywhere. If > you had a desktop computer that you could use to route the traffic from > the wireless router for you...but all of that is beyond the scope of the > question. > > Craig Point understood. But security should always be a concern. And while registering the MAC address helps, that can be overcome with just a little effort. Properly securing a wifi connection takes considerable effort. But I guess that discussion will be left for another question. :) -- Scot L. Harris <webid@xxxxxxxxxx> -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
