Re: Salvaging Unwire Portland

On 31 Jul 2007 00:50:04 -0700, Russell Senior <[email protected]> wrote:

> The obstacle that I don't have a ready answer for, at least that
> wouldn't require additional node-host investments is where the
> prospective node host is doing "unsafe" things like using windows
> fileshares from a laptop over wireless.  I am somewhat clueless about
> the state of windows networking these days, but that sounds unsafe to
> me.

Windows XP, at least, makes file sharing rather difficult, demanding your acceptance of a warning stating that others could be in ur foldrz grabbin ur filz. The sharing tab that used to let you turn on network sharing is now designed to offer you sharing among users (on one computer) as the primary option, with a grudging offer of network sharing below it. I don't think that it's any more dangerous than file sharing on any other system, and it is most certainly off by default.

> The solution that I know would work would be to get a separate
> device to provide the open wireless, and do their fileshares over an
> encrypted network.  This would have the drawback of requiring
> additional investment by the node host, which would be a disincentive
> for them.  Maybe someone else has a better solution.  Not everyone is
> going to be doing that though, so it's an obstacle for only a subset
> of the population.

This is what I do at my house, more or less. In my incarnation, so that I can avoid double NAT, I require multiple IPs, which is obviously an additional investment as well. A device that would route 2 subnets would be very nice, can we make OpenWRT or DDWRT do that with multiple SSIDs?

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