VPN + 802.11 How do ya do this?

I'm looking to attempt to improve the security of my 802.11 setup at home.
It seems that adding VPN to 802.11 is a reasonable approach.

Can someone give me a thumbnail as to what the process looks like?

Thanks

dougga wrote:

> I'm looking to attempt to improve the security of my 802.11 setup at home.
> It seems that adding VPN to 802.11 is a reasonable approach.
>
> Can someone give me a thumbnail as to what the process looks like?
>
> Thanks

I have done just that here. My WiFi router is outside of my SuSE Linux 9.1
firewall, on it's own NIC. I set up the SuSE firewall to only allow my VPN
& SSH through, from either the wireless or internet connections. I use
OpenVPN, which works well.

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dougga wrote:

> I'm looking to attempt to improve the security of my 802.11 setup at home.
> It seems that adding VPN to 802.11 is a reasonable approach.
>
> Can someone give me a thumbnail as to what the process looks like?
>
> Thanks
>
>

Some wireless ap/routers, like the Linksys WRT54G, run Linux and can be
modified to run as VPN endpoint.
Thus what the process looks like is based on how you want to implement
VPN in your network.

S.