[TriLUG] why not IPSec for encryption for wifi

[Greg Brown]

I did force IPSec use on my home wireless but then I realized there really
wasn't any need.  I mean, there are plenty of wide open APs even out where I
live.  If I am running WPA I feel that someone would have to want to break
into my system just for the challenge alone.  But maybe they will some day.


But maybe I'll go ahead and set it back up again.  Heck, why not?  But then
again, why?

Greg

On 7/25/06, Jason <jason at monsterjam.org> wrote:
>
> 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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