Don't do the brown WiFi, the brown WiFi is BAD

Cory Doctorow 8:16 am Wed Oct 2, 2002

~~Rob "Pringles Can" Flickenger and others~~ Cliff Skolnik at the O'Reilly OS X con has tracked down the cause of the annoying flakiness in the wireless network here — every 20 or 30 seconds, you start getting "connection refused" messages from your browser and other net-utilities. Rob "Pringles Can" Flickenger wrote it up.

It turns out that running the great network-spy app Etherpeg (or other "promiscuous" network sniffers) and the built-in firewall in OS X at the same time causes your computer to begin intercepting every packet sent out on your segment of the wireless network and respond to it with a "rejected" message.

So today, Rob (and everyone else who knows about this) is going to run around and tell people running Etherpeg to turn off the firewall (and vice-versa). Ah, fickle networking, you are such a stern mistress!

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(Thanks, Rob!)

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