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From rssfeeds@jmason.org Thu Oct 3 12:24:33 2002
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From: boingboing <rssfeeds@spamassassin.taint.org>
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Subject: Don't do the brown WiFi, the brown WiFi is BAD
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Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 08:01:31 -0000
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URL: http://boingboing.net/#85515860
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Date: Not supplied
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Rob "Pringles Can" Flickenger and others at the O'Reilly OS X con have tracked
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down the cause of the annoying flakiness in the wireless network here -- every
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20 or 30 seconds, you start getting "connection refused" messages from your
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browser and other net-utilities.
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It turns out that running the great network-spy app Etherpeg[1] (or other
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"promiscuous" network sniffers) and the built-in firewall in OS X at the same
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time causes your computer to begin intercepting every packet sent out on your
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segment of the wireless network and respond to it with a "rejected" message.
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So today, Rob (and everyone else who knows about this) is going to run around
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and tell people running Etherpeg to _turn off the firewall_ (and vice-versa).
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Ah, fickle networking, you are such a stern mistress! Link[2] Don't do the
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brown WiFi, the brown WiFi is BAD (_Thanks, Rob!_)
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[1] http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1414
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[2] http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2086
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