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Old 20th November 2008
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Originally Posted by JMJ_coder View Post
Even if you ssh into the gateway, what's to prevent others from getting in? I might be missing something (and probably more than just one thing ), but that seems to secure your connection between your computer and the gateway and not the gateway from outside intruders.
A carefully written pf ruleset would prevent wireless users from accessing the rest of your network.. and even your gateway.

If all you allow is SSH connectivity.. clients would be required to authenticate.. so unless they stole your key & passphrase, you should be safe.

Also, in that sort of setup... typically you wouldn't want to use password-only authentication.. as it would be brute forcible.
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