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Date:      Wed, 17 Jan 2001 17:06:11 +0000
From:      Simon Loader <simon@herculeez.com>
To:        Rasputin <rasputin@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BSD box as Airport replacement?
Message-ID:  <3A65D103.D815E92@herculeez.com>
References:  <20010117162929.A58519@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010117084116.A22875@drella.newsof.com> <20010117165843.A58911@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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Rasputin wrote:
> 
> * Andrew Wyllie <wyllie@dilex.net> [010117 16:43]:
> > Hi Rasputin,
> >
> > I bought the Orinoco (Lucent WaveLAN cards - the "Gold" version ).
> > I used an old 486/100 with 16MB ram and a 500MB drive and this paper:
> >
> >       http://www.live.com/wireless/unix-base-station.html
> >
> > It works great.   My base station is in the basement and I can use it
> > from all over the house and part way down the street ( the cards say
> > they work up to 1700 feet - outside ).
> >
> 
> Cheers Andrew, that'll do me fine. One more question:
>         With a range like that, how do you stop Evil Granny Smith
> at number 23 from sniffing your network traffic?
> 
> Is there crypto built into the IEEE802.11 spec?
> And is it any good?
> 

With the gold version there is I think silver doesnt 

-- 
Simon


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