Re: wireless security on notebooks

[Andres <andrej100 () gmail com>]

Dear Krymson and George,

Thank you both for your answer and help.

I have a doubt regarding the spuffing issue:

Krymson says:

> 3) The IP 192.168.0.x is not an Internet routable address. Your cable modem, or wireless
> AP, or whatever you use to get to the Internet will not let that pass through to the WAN
> side. So nothing to worry about there!

and George says:
> Blocking incoming packets to your WAN from any private scheme
> of IP addresses -  10.0.0.0 – 10.255.255.255  172.16.0.0 – 172.31.255.255
> and 192.168.0.0 – 192.168.255.255 - is a good idea. In networking terms
> is called IP Spoofing meaning that someone using any IP from the above range
> may deceive your firewall settings and interpreted as someone from your internal
> network!!

Is there a singularity with these address ranges ?

Best Regards,

Andres H
Argentina