From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Jan 17 9:16:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from isris.pair.com (isris.pair.com [209.68.2.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 62EDE37B402 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 09:16:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 83056 invoked by uid 3130); 17 Jan 2001 17:16:26 -0000 Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 12:16:26 -0500 From: Garrett Rooney To: simon@surf.org.uk Cc: Rasputin , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD box as Airport replacement? Message-ID: <20010117121626.A87600@electricjellyfish.net> Mail-Followup-To: Garrett Rooney , simon@surf.org.uk, Rasputin , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <20010117162929.A58519@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010117084116.A22875@drella.newsof.com> <20010117165843.A58911@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <3A65D103.D815E92@herculeez.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A65D103.D815E92@herculeez.com>; from simon@herculeez.com on Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 05:06:11PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 05:06:11PM +0000, Simon Loader wrote: > Rasputin wrote: > > > > * Andrew Wyllie [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 Silver and Gold both have crypto, although the silver is lower strength. Bronze is the version that does not. -garrett -- garrett rooney my pid is inigo montoya. rooneg@electricjellyfish.net you kill -9 my parent process. http://electricjellyfish.net/ prepare to vi. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message