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WiFi security and IIIMF
Getting my notebook, not only resulted in more work done while commuting, but also a host of new things to learn regarding WiFi and IIIMF input methods.
I successfully got my Intel 2100 WiFI adapter to work and connect to Airzed successfully. There is a nagging issue that I haven't pinned down yet, which is that once a connection has been associated, it stays there and I can't seem to get it to connect to another network. Since S3 suspend works, I don't like the idea of rebooting just to reset a wifi connection. This bugs me, and will get further attention soon.
This leads to WiFi at home. I was thinking of getting a DLink 520+ PCI card on Friday to add to my firewall, but this plan has been delayed yet again, due to changes in plans to grab it from a shop in Low Yat. Since my wife's Vaio died, she's been using my desktop. So I need to setup a wireless access point at home, so I can work somewhere else and still have access to my desktop/devel server without lugging a long ethernet cable around the house.
After a quick read of bsdairtools it's obvious that WEP is not going to cut it, what with all the open ports and liberal security options on my internal home network. Additionally, I figure since I'm on the top floor and and top of a hill, why not share my bandwidth too?
So the WiFi plan at home is to have the AP on a different subnet, and a firewall rule that will allow dhcp, dns and ports 80, 443 open via a transparent proxy (another thing that I need to get up and running). Additionally I will also need to setup an ipsec gateway from my notebook to the internal lan. With some basic IPFW rules to block and shape the traffic, this doesn't look to be too difficult. Setting up ipsec for the first time, should take a bit longer than normal, although there is a lot of info on the net. This should be an interesting community experiment.
Finally IIIMF and what the heck is it? Basically it's a multilingual Unicode input method framework to replace XIM. I've been happy so far with gtk-input, although I'm now facing some quirks with it with gaim, as well as problems with openoffice. With my wife using my desktop more, I'll need to use a better system and IIIMF is it. It's already in the ports, so it shouldn't be too hard to get up and running. I'll report back soon on my success/failure at getting it to work with Japanese and Korean.
