[ale] kismet

[matty91 at bellsouth.net]

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, cfowler wrote:

> >From an access stand point, what is the difference between a bridge and
> AP?
>

In infrastructure mode, an AP acts exactly just like an Ethernet bridge.
It doesn't route packets, so everything is handled at layer II.

>
> On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 14:16, Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Geoffrey wrote:
> >
> > > Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> > >
> > > > Another thing that is commonly overlooked is making sure that the
> > > > individual cards themselves are not running in ad-hoc mode. I think that
> > > > once you get to a certain point in taking all these precautions, you have
> > > > to conclude that if the data is that important, it's not worth the trouble
> > > > to secure 802.11b.
> > >
> > > And if that's the only viable solution?
> >
> > Wireless or 802.11b specifically? 802.11b is far from the only solution. I
> > really like the stuff from Proxim. The Tsunami line is pretty good.
> >
> > http://www.proxim.com/products/all/tsunami_bridge/index.html
> >
> > Please note that these are bridges. As I said before, if it absolutely
> > must be secure, access points are out of the question as far as I'm
> > concerned. I will not endorse it.
> >
> > --
> > Jonathan Rickman
> > X Corps Security
> > http://www.xcorps.net
> >
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