Re: Using PPPoE to secure Wireless LANs?

Weeeeelll.... I hate to spoil everyone's fun, but a Cisco 2600 with the right IOS version and a standard config (i.e., base RAM) handles MS-CHAPv2 and MPPE-128bit encryption perfectly.

(It's rated for 200 simultaneous sessions, which suits me just fine)

To bring down the cost, I've experimented with a 1700 series. MS-CHAPv2 works great, MPPE is limited to 40-bit (but that might be just an IOS issue).

Total cost? Zero for me (I already had the gear) but I'm guessing that since the smaller Ciscos are being sold as (admittedly high-end) SOHO devices, it's pretty cheap...

I'm also investigating the roamnode Linux solution (which is very promising, BTW), but WLAN has been on my backburner for a couple of months now, so adding a paltry ten lines or so to a Cisco router config was easier.

Sure, some of the solutions people have been advertising on this list may have advantages. IMMV, and all that. But it's working for me, and Cisco does have global support/integrators/etc. (who keep trying to sell me their own quasi-proprietary WLAN solution, sure, but that's another thing).

R.

On Monday, Jan 20, 2003, at 13:03 Europe/Lisbon, Bob Carrick wrote:

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