IPsec +- 802.11

[John Denker]

At 07:48 AM 10/1/01 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
>Is there a howto for IPsec or any other kind of session encryption over 
>802.11?

Well, specifically no but generally yes.

IPsec doesn't care what sort of transport you are using (802.11 or 
whatever).  That's a feature!  These things live at different layers, as 
they should.

So the IPsec part of the question should be simplified to asking whether 
there is an IPsec howto.  The answer, of course, is yes.  Details depend on 
the flavor of operating system.  For linux, the starting point is:
   http://www.freeswan.org/
For FreeBSD, a possible starting point is:
   http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ipsec.html

Different IPsec implementations are supposed to interoperate, and mostly 
they do.
   http://www.freeswan.org/freeswan_trees/freeswan-1.9/doc/interop.html




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