[vpn] wep

[James Hartman]

This makes me wonder if one could use a device such as a SnapGear to secure 
WAP-to-WAP connections.  If that is possible, which I'm fairly certain is, 
what else could be snatched from the air other than the IPsec traffic?  
Sorry, I'm not as well versed in wireless as I would like.

On Monday 03 June 2002 11:28 am, Pete Jacob wrote:
> Hello~
> I was wondering if anyone knew of a good solution to help my problem...
> I have an external wireless connection to an office across the street using
> a Breeze com 802.11B
> technology... but the equipment will only use a 40bit WEP key.
> I would like to accomplish the following:
> 1. treat both sites as a different broadcast domains
> 2. have some sort of magical box that will provide some sort of magical
> vpn/3des encryption, and have two ether net ports
> in it, one to connect to the network another to connect to the wireless
> network, then back at the remote site it
> would do the same...
>
> I was thinking that Cisco probably makes what I need but since I am only a
> lowly ccna it might be
> to difficult to configure, and too costly.
> I also think I should be able to do this with a pee cea, and two nics...
> but this sounds like a bad idea.
>
>
> Thanks~
> Pete.
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