[TriLUG] why not IPSec for encryption for wifi

[Jason]

that and the ipsec rfc is loosely interpreted by various vendors..

from: http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/1490451

"After years of use on the Internet, there are a bewildering variety of incompatible VPN 
programs. Even using open standards, such as the combination of L2TP and IPSec, an Internet 
Engineering Task Force (IETF) (define) proposed standard, doesn't guarantee that one company's 
L2TP/IPSec package will work with another's. Any given package, properly deployed, will work 
better than ordinary WEP, but they're not universal solutions."

Jason 

 On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 
at 09:15:35PM -0400, John Broome wrote: > On 7/25/06, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:
> >I just found out the IPSec works with ipv4 (I last played
> >with ipv6 about 8yrs ago and dropped it when I realised I
> >could only talk to myself with ipv6).
> >
> >IPSec seems to handle the encryption that WEP and WPA are
> >doing. Why isn't IPSec used instead of WEP and WPA?
> 
> 
> Wardriving around my neighborhood i see that joe and jane public can't
> get a grasp on wep/wpa.  Throwing ipsec in there, along with setting
> it up on the router/client would probably be a little much to ask.
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