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NoCatAuth: Authentication for Wireless Networks
Lisa writes: "Even an open community wireless network needs to keep track of who's using it, says Rob Flickenger, who describes the authentication system used by NoCat in this article." This is at least partially an ad for Flickenger's new book, but since I plan to buy the book anyway... Update: 11/17 14:53 GMT by M : Yep, this is a duplicate. But community wireless needs more participants, so why not read it again? :)
This was posted last week already.
Here.
Since this article was posted earlier, can I simply copy and paste all the top-moderated comments to grab some easy karma? I shall call it a consistency-test!
I am having deja vu all over again
Is posting the same article several times considered Spamming Slashdot Readers (tm)?
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If you're not on somebody's shit list, you're not doing anything worthwhile.....
Update: 11/17 14:53 GMT by M: Yep, this is a duplicate. But community wireless needs more participants, so why not read it again? :)
/. to get a real FP ?
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Cos I'm lazy?
Cos I'm too busy participating to read it again?
Cos it was boring the first time?
Cos I'm reloading
The list just goes on
well at least they are getting closer to not doing duplicates :)
Yes, I'm a geek too. Too bad, dump this Linux/*BSD shit and get a nice chick. Soon you won't give a fuck for Open Source anymore.
The problem is that I've already got enough trouble controlling my alcohol consumption. If I graduate to hard liquor I might lose all control. The beer-bloat you mention above has helped me to keep drinking under control.
Unlike all the other /. kids, some, like to be reminded of nation wide FCC unregulated com.
Problem is the freaking cost 802.11b devices are a lot more than 3.50.
So it costs less to use a pay phone.
Plus what kind of range is "984 feet per cell for outdoor use" from d-link site.
3 watts of analog cellular goes a lot further than that, sure its slower but it has more range, and it can cost zero at times.
Anyway, yeah 802.11b prices look a lot nicer than about a year ago, thats nice.
Oh Slashdot is so hurt these days.... I remember the glory days... can't we put the Slashdot boys back in College so the site can regain it's glory.... your credit card bills may have been unbearable but at least you brought real joy to geeks everywhere....
Yes I already read this one, the last time it was posted....
Chris
While it's certainly reasonable to want authentication
even if you're not going to be charging BigBux for it,
taking a web-centric approach to using a net is not
really going to cut it going forward. Using the web as
an _enrollement_ tool is probably fine, but if you want
to be running VoIP phones which need real time handoff
capabilities, let's see... "Hold on while I sign up for service
on this new AP...". I don't think so.
Fast roaming is going ot require a better authentication
subsystem which is inherently single signon and will
almost certainly requires cross realm agreements so that
you can move from cellular to 802.11 to whatever
seamlessly. My personal fave candidate is to use kerberos
mechanisms since it allows amortization of expensive
public operations, but other heroism may be needed in
the form of the icky prospect of transfering AAA, SA, and
QoS authorization context across access routers, etc.
... would be if you could easily set aside a certain percentage of your bandwidth (say 10-15%) for use by other people, and more if its available. That way you aren't taking a backseat to freeloaders on your own network, but you also aren't curring people off whenever you start a big, bandwidth-heavy transfer.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
If he wants to authenticate users on his network, good for him. But he assumes that everybody feels the same way as him. Authentication flies in the face of absolute anonymity, and anything that blocks anonymity is a Bad Thing (tm).
come on. at this point i find it totally stupid that the slashdot 'team' cant do the basic work to prevent article reposting. this is just stupid and shows that they really do not care about the quality of their content. all it takes is a simple database of articles and a few searches to prevent this shit. hell, even worse, it means that the slashdot team doesnt even read slashdot. maybe most everyone has gotten used to this level of 'quality', but should we really have to. this 'mistake' seems to happen every weekend. whatever happened to constant improvement and learning from mistakes.
Worst. Thread. Ever.
Of what use, exactly, are these open networks? My wireless station doesn't even reach outside the house, and I doubt you could boost it to cover more than a few homes. Unless you plan to let flocks of people park on your lawn and use their laptops, wouldn't the only others using it be neighbours, who will stay in one place, and let you give them access to it anyway?