Re: [NTLK] Wavelan [Was: Re: $50.00 wireless Internet for Newton.]

From: Hubertus (hubertus_at_mac.com)
Date: Tue Sep 25 2001 - 14:55:27 EDT

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>* Hubertus <hubertus_at_mac.com> on Tue, 25 Sep 2001
>| I am speaking of WLANs. To login at the access point you have
>| to authenticate with pppoe. Behind the access point might be a
>| router, a firewall etc.
>
>Oh. You are roaming. What the F! are they doing PPPoE over 802.11b?
>PPPoE is dumb to begin with, but PPPoE over 802.11b is rock-stupid, because
>it *ISN'T* peer-to-peer.

I dont like it either. Problems to get software and problems to
konfigure the systems. The reason seems to be security. But soon this
will be changed to vpn. Difficult!

Hubertus

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