Wireless Networking
a UNIX administration perspective
Overview
Norm Abramson and AlohaNet
Why Wireless Went Away....
Then Why Did It Come Back?
Technologies
802.11
802.11a
802.11b WiFi
802.11g
The others don't really matter....
Now that things are working fine....
Early Problems
WEP was the first effort
WiFi Protected Access (WPA)
802.11i
Robust Security Networks (RSN)
What is the take-away?
How does wireless work?
What does this mean
to a Sysadmin?
Think about NFS throughput....