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A Solution For Making WiFi Cost Effective
rkohutek writes "This whitepaper came out of my employer's desire to deploy high speed wireless internet to an underserved, mostly rural area. Although very easy to do on the ground level, I found it to not be a cake walk when it came to actually making it a viable network case -- in a "normally" deployed wireless network it is very easy to spoof an IP or MAC address and hop on the network and get free bandwidth. This is not acceptable and the acronym WARTA, Wireless Authentication, Routing, Traffic control, Accounting was thought up to cover the things that we needed to do. Read on for how we managed to make it work using Free Software: HTML or PDF." Update: 06/07 20:42 GMT by T : He sends along word of this mirror as well.
That's a non-solution. Did you read the article? It requires that you send authentication tokens via the open airwaves. That is NOT the way to run a secure system. Anybody with two braincells or more can see that any yokel can just fire up airsnort and grab the information out of the air. What a worthless proposal. Wireless will never be secure.
Read the man page on 'ipfw' and it EXPLAINS that you need the in/out options, and why. Dont be idiots and ignore documentation
Next time read the docs yourself and you wont be treated like a moron
How about making totally free?