On 08/13/14 19:18, Jules Gilbert wrote: > When setting up 5.5, I get my ethernet card saying "active" and > everything looks right, but pings to known outside addresses fail, eg., > I'm still not on the air. Also, I've heard that running X weakens > security, I'm going to OpenBSD because my FreBSD based Mac is, > apparently, where hackers go to relax. Can I strengthen the X component? > Oh, I don't have access to any wires, my environment is strictly > wireless. Incredibly fast but not based on patch cords. Still, I assume > I could use a patch code from my Mac to get my OpenBSD machine up. >
you have provided almost no information (and a few contradictions in the few facts you provided). IF you are doing a wireless network and it's a simple wireless network, you aren't doing vlans. Not your issue. You need to config your wireless card properly. This can be a trick without a wire, as many wireless cards require a firmware that can not be included with the base system, so much be installed. Answer there is to download the needed firmware on another machine and copy it to your target system. You mention a "patch code", which I am guessing means an Ethernet cable (CORD), but if you are strictly wireless, I'm at a loss as to what you are plugging your Ethernet card into. As for the issue of X security, again, it depends on details you avoided giving us. But I suspect your security issue is related to something far simpler than X exploits -- like maybe the application(s) you are running or administrative errors. Is X a security problem? yes. Absolutely. Something that needs to be fixed. But not a common "in-the-wild" untargeted attack. If that's really how people are moving into your system, I know people who'd love to see it, but your note pretty well convinces me this is NOT the vector used. Nick.
