[Novalug] securing wireless access to lan with vpn?

Brandon Saxe brandon20va@yahoo.com
Sat Mar 22 12:40:46 EDT 2008


I am looking to lock down my wireless at my home. I
live in an apartment so there are lots of people who
have access to my radio signals on my APs. I cannot
use WPA to do this because my older laptop, Sony U101,
is 802.11b and only supports WEP.

I was thinking I could have an AP/firewall with WEP,
hidden SSID, MAC address filtering (security through
obscurity, deterrent only), and then use a VPN to
secure traffic to my wired LAN. While the AP/firewall
in this case most likely still has vulnerabilities, if
I am doing VPN then my data is still protected. I
would also allow SSH on this AP as well. Is this
sound?

If so, what VPN solutions can you recommend? I have
heard of OpenVPN and SSL Explorer.

I have windows and linux clients. I can use SSH on my
embedded linux devices and tunnel individual ports as
needed.

This may be overkill, but I like these kinds of
projects for the fun and educational benefit.

thanks!
  Brandon



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