On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 08:07 -0400, Miner, Jonathan W (CSC) (US SSA) wrote: > My apologies if this isn't related... I was working with a friend last > week, and trying to debug communication issues between her laptop and > her hosting company's FTP server. Her wireless network is > unencrypted, and both her laptop (WinXP) and mine (F7) were > "connected". I could run wireshark on my wireless interface and see > the traffic from the server to her laptop... but not the traffic from > the laptop to the server. (Physically tapping the network, upstream > from the AP would be my next option) No worries, that interested me as well. I don't think I'd ever want to use un-encrypted wireless, but it's interesting to note that you only saw the traffic in one direction. I did get a laptop, I'm playing with it now (working moderately well, if anyone wants a report on putting Fedora on an Asus PRO31J, sing out and I'll write a separate message about it). But I've turned the wireless off - I don't have any other wireless devices to connect to, and I don't fancy accidentally connecting to someone else's wireless. I might pay a visit to someone with a wireless access point, and play around with it on purpose, later on. -- (This box runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
