On Tuesday 01 June 2004 00:17, Brian Feldman wrote: > On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 09:48:55AM +0100, Doug Rabson wrote: > > On Sunday 30 May 2004 20:06, Bill Paul wrote: > > > > > <jedi mind trick> > > > > > You want to use ad-hoc mode. You don't want to bother me with > > > > > silly questions about hostap mode because it doesn't really > > > > > let you do anything you can't do with ad-hoc mode anyway. Use > > > > > IPSec with ad-hoc mode and you'll probably get better > > > > > security than any access point can give you in the first > > > > > place. > > > > > </jedi mind trick> > > > > > > > > Probably. Only if I can get this silly little WinME laptop to > > > > do ad-hoc as well though. The main reason for doing this is > > > > that my AP died and my gf wants to use the laptop in the garden > > > > :-). > > > > > > Did you... read the little booklet that came with the card in > > > your gf's computer? Sometimes there's a special control panel > > > snap-in or custom utility to configure the card. If not, go to > > > the control panel, click "system" and look for the device > > > manager. Select the wireless device and check for driver > > > settings. You might be able to set ad-hoc mode there. > > > > I managed to find new drivers for the laptop's card and it works > > fine now. Now I just have to put some kind of tunnelling thing > > together (I guess pptp is the only option for WinMe) so that the > > neighbours can't 'borrow' our service. > > Doing a Windows-style VPN is pretty darn easy on FreeBSD: > 1. Install ports/net/poptop. > 2. Set up pptpd.conf (pretty much just the remoteip and localip > options). 3. Set up ppp(8) with a "pptp" section, much like the > following: pptp: > set timeout 0 > set log phase chat connect lcp ipcp command > enable MSCHAPv2 > enable mppe > set mppe 128 stateful > disable deflate pred1 > deny deflate pred1 > accept dns > enable dns > set ifaddr localip range ... > 4. After modifying ppp.conf, add appropriate users to ppp.secret. I ended up using mpd from ports/net/mpd instead - it works very nicely.Received on Mon May 31 2004 - 23:17:06 UTC
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