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Date:      Wed, 17 Jan 2001 16:58:43 +0000
From:      Rasputin <rasputin@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BSD box as Airport replacement?
Message-ID:  <20010117165843.A58911@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010117084116.A22875@drella.newsof.com>; from wyllie@dilex.net on Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 08:41:16AM -0800
References:  <20010117162929.A58519@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010117084116.A22875@drella.newsof.com>

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* 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?

-- 
Rasputin 
Jack of All Trades :: Master of Nuns


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