From: Till Kamppeter (till.kamppeter@gmx.net)
Date: Tue May 27 2003 - 23:02:55 CEST
Joerg Hoh wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 02:17:50PM +0200, Till Kamppeter wrote:
>
>
>>Thank you in advance.
>>
>>This was really a big problem last year as Manalo tried to set up a
>>gateway for the class B-and-a-half network (netmask 255.255.240.0) which
>>Kurt wanted to have. On the Linux-Kongress in Cologne we did a class C
>>with Mandrake?s internet access sharing tool which worked out-of-the-box
>>but had no firewall. Some time ago, I already thought about bringing one
>>of our firewall packs.
>
>
> Hm, why a firewall? Is in the net something more private you want to
> hide? :-)
>
I don?t see anything to hide. The only thing which an attacker could do
is letting something break, but such things did not happen in the last
years, so a firewall is not that important ...
> Linuxtag provides Internet-Access via WLAN; is there some kind of
> encryption and access control? Can everybody connect to the WLAN?
>
I don?t know, I am crossposting to the
linuxtag-projects@lists.infodrom.org list, probably there someone knows
more ...
Till
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