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Xircom, one of the worldwide leaders in the field of modems, has announced today in a news wire that they will be releasing a series of springboards in Q2 of this year. Plans are for regular 56k modems, cell phone modems, and last but not least a wireless sprinboard modem. This is good news for me to hear since a lot of tech reporters have been snikering at handsping's strategies and saying they and their springboard capability will ultimately fail. Since Xircom is known as one of the most prominant companies in the industry, it is awesome to see them announce that they will support handsrping and their efforts. I will keep this board up to date if I read anymore news releases from other companies

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Yeah, saw the article.

I was planning to go 802.11 with a laptop, but I wonder what surfing would be like with 802.11 on a Visor.

Registered: Dec 1999
Location: DFW Metroplex, TX USA
Posts: 58

Eug,

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Originally posted by Eug:
Yeah, saw the article.

I was planning to go 802.11 with a laptop, but I wonder what surfing would be like with 802.11 on a Visor.

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Registered: Jan 2000
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I'm pumped about the ethernet connection can either plug into my home network or work network that would be cool, possibly be able to hotsync over it? Not to be greedy but a 2-way card with both ethernet and a modem would be really nice no need to switch cards just leave the one in there everywhere you go. Oh yeah can't wait till these start coming out.

Registered: Nov 1999
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Dude,

Ethernet hotsyncs are cool, but as far as I know everything is transmitted in plaintext, and the ethernet protocal is open to sniffer attacks. I don't know if I'd want to do ethernet hotsyncs with all the personal information that I store on my PDA.

Anyone wanna port OpenSSH to the visor and tunnel the hotsyncs thru that? 8)

-=- SiKnight

Registered: Dec 1999
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SK,
Your getting your layers mixed up. Ethernet defines the framing format, has nothing to do with the Datagram.

Registered: Nov 1999
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dumbuser, you're absolutely right, but the ethernet module's gonna be only used for TCP/IP, I think ... and *that* is the layer that sniffers attack at.... (I think)

.. SiKnight

Registered: Dec 1999
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Ethernet may be also used with IP,Ipx,netbuli,etc.

Registered: Dec 1999
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Sniffing is not an attack. Its a very useful troubleshooting tool.

I forget the Spec's on 802.11 is, but I thought there as an initial Key exchange between the Hub and the Card to register it on the network.

As for ssh, you can already tunnel a Hotsync through ssh. I haven't tested it yet, but it will be just like tunneling X11 and Pop through it. Search for the SSH FAQ, it discusses how to tunnel other protocols through it.

Registered: Jan 2000
Location: Potomac, MD
Posts: 22

Ethernet maps to layer two of the OSI model- TCP/IP maps to layer three. The L3 IP datagram is encapsulated into the L2 frame and then transmitted. As Ethernet (most common is IEEE 802.3) is a broadcast medium, I'd love some capability to encrypt my Ethernet hotsyncs! I'm not too worried- got full duplex to all desktops.