Re: Can't connect via VNC from work to home

From: Juergen Nieveler (juergen.nieveler.nospam_at_arcor.de)
Date: 02/15/05 

Date: 15 Feb 2005 18:09:27 GMT

ejfudd820@hotmail.com wrote:

> Also, you did not read the entire message. She is bring her OWN
> LAPTOP, and connecting it to the company's WIRELESS network.

She might be violating company rules already simply by doing that.

> It is becuase of this that they would have to bring in a spectrum >
> analyser in order to be able to trace the offending computer.

Uh... nope. See below.

> They can spot it on the firewall, but to find the offending computer
> would require a spectrum analyser and a tracking antenna.

They can see the IP address. The DHCP server will tell them the MAC to
that IP. Then they check which access point the network card with that
MAC is connected to. That limits the search to the area covered by this
access point - with a usual corporate layout, they'll only have one
floor to search, possibly even as little as 2 or 3 offices.

Not to mention that it wouldn't have helped with the original question
- the poster didn't want to use private equipment inside the company
network, he wanted to circumvent or tunnel the firewall. Your friend is
in trouble, but she still is behind the firewall.

Juergen Nieveler 

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