Wireless encryption is a good start, preferably 128-bit. If you have an access filter on your router to govern which machines access the network, enable it also and give the router your MAC address as its first/only entry.
Not to state the obvious, but change your router's password from the default and enable blocking for any questionable ports which show up via a quick netstat -plant. I have a wireless network with two computers and these steps seem to work well for me. R. On Monday 24 July 2006 01:51 pm, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking for the best policies / practices to start wireless networking. > Briefly I use wireless in following locations: > > -home: > wpa via wpa_supplicant > > -public (bars..etc..): > no wep/wpa > > Both works fine. Currently I start a console logged with user root to call > ifup with related params. > Should I used root to call ifup ? > I would like to keep a manual connection as I do not want to automatically > connect. > > Hereafter my partial file 'interface' > > (snip) > # wireless public places > iface public inet dhcp > wireless-essid any > wireless-key off > > # wireless at home using wpa > iface homewpa inet static > wpa_driver wext > wpa-conf /home/bruno/.wpa/wpa_supplicant.conf > address 192.168.1.4 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > gateway 192.168.1.1 > (snip) > > > Bye, > Bruno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
