Re: How to be secure at hot spots.

From: Bill Robins (wmrobins_at_verizon.net)
Date: 08/27/03 

Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 01:57:23 GMT

Thanks for bringing this up. I forgot all about them.

Bill
"leslie" <LESLIE@JRLVAX.HOUSTON.RR.COM> wrote in message
news:j8B2b.2100$gf.233163@twister.austin.rr.com...
> Bill Robins (wmrobins@verizon.net) wrote:
> : My son, starting collage, is the proud owner of a new laptop. For home
use
> : I've set it up with 802.11G, WPA, AES. Of coarse I've got Anti-virus
> : (Norton) and a software firewall (Kerio). My question is... How do I
set
> : all this up to keep his system clean at the school's hot spots, (and
> : Borders, Starbuck's...) and still give him full access at home. Do I do
> : this by changing my local trusted from 192.168.0.1 to something else?
If
> : so, what's a good IP set that's not used at hot spots?
> :
> : Any ideas?
> :
>
> RFC 1918 defines the private address space address blocks:
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1918.txt
> Request for Comments: 1918
>
> "...3. Private Address Space
>
> The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved the
> following three blocks of the IP address space for private internets:
>
> 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 (10/8 prefix)
> 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 (172.16/12 prefix)
> 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix)
>
> We will refer to the first block as "24-bit block", the second as
> "20-bit block", and to the third as "16-bit" block. Note that (in
> pre-CIDR notation) the first block is nothing but a single class A
> network number, while the second block is a set of 16 contiguous
> class B network numbers, and third block is a set of 256 contiguous
> class C network numbers..."
>
>
> There are two third-party applications that handle multiple network
> configurations frequently encountered by laptop users:
>
> http://www.netswitcher.com/
> NetSwitcher, the ultimate windows network setup utility.
>
> http://www.multinetworkmanager.co.uk/mnm_home.htm
> MultiNetwork Manager Home Page
>
> --Jerry Leslie
> Note: leslie@jrlvax.houston.rr.com is invalid for email

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