[OpenWireless Tech] The police came to the AP owner first, then sniffed the air to find real culprit​​

[Dan Auerbach]

A general comment on this thread: are there people working on specific
projects related to VPNs? Anything from setting up a VPN-phone-home
solution to making resources available to AP operators about how to pay
for a VPN service for their open networks? This isn't our first tech
priority at EFF, since there are lots of folks who are willing to run
open APs today and we want to tackle the firmware problem first. But if
others are working on it, that's great -- just want to tease out
projects ideas.

On 11/29/2012 09:23 AM, js wrote:
> On 11/29/12 12:16 , David Fine wrote:
>> It's possible to do securely and with QOS on most routers, and
>> people affiliated with this list are working on improving OpenWRT to
>> make it easier.
>
> oo- this is intersting to me. is there any public information
> available on this?
>
There are out-of-the-box solutions for running two SSIDs -- one secured
and one unsecured -- and using QoS to reduce the bandwidth on the open
connection. For example, for OpenWRT which I've spent the most time
looking at, you can see http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/recipes/guest-wlan.
With respect to improving OpenWRT, prioritization of packets is the main
thing I've been thinking about. It's a complicated topic and there are
different ideas about how to do this. One technology called CeroWRT and
CoDel might be interesting to you:
http://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/codel/wiki. Stay tuned for more
information on this, or ping me if you have ideas and want to get involved.

-- 
Dan Auerbach
Staff Technologist
Electronic Frontier Foundation
dan at eff.org
415 436 9333 x134

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