[ILUG] Wireless question

[Niall O Broin]

I need to look at making a PtP connection between two buildings - our office
and a customers building. I initially proposed 802.11 but wiser counsels
said that the customer wouldn't buy it and so we put in an ISDN link. But it
now transpires that that's just too slow for the developers so the wireless
option has resurfaced. At our side we have our LAN and at the customers side
there is a Solaris box. So I've a very general question - what am I looking
at hardware wise on each side (on the customer's side I basically have to
present as an Ethernet interface) and what about software - we will have to
show security, and I know that WEP is NOT secure. We'll be running ssh over
the link, but I want to make sure that people strolling by can't connect to
the wireless network at any level. Cost is secondary to security in this
application - it's your taxes will be paying for it anyway :-)


I realise thes are broad questions but I think quite a few of you are
playing with 802.11 kit so I'm sure the answer's out there. And I'll surely
be able to finagle a wireless card for my notebook out of this ( for
testing, of course) so I'll be able to join you playing :-)


Niall