[vpn] wep

[Torre, Alex]

Pete,

I would continue to look into the Cisco solution for the VPN Encryption.  

But one thing that did strike me right off the bat is the wireless across
the buildings.  Make sure to check your security on your WEP. WEP really
isn't the most secure thing, but you can take certain precautionary measures
to increase your network security. 

How well is your Breezecom working? Didn't get that great of a review from
NetworkComputing. Check the link
(http://www.networkcomputing.com/1113/1113f25.html)

Alex



-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Jacob [mailto:pjacob at ftmc.com]
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 12:29 PM
To: vpn at securityfocus.com
Subject: [vpn] wep


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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