Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 12:20:37 -0600 From: "Scott Milliken" <scott@e-comsultant.net> To: <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: BSD box as Airport replacement? Message-ID: <004201c080b2$44ecfd90$0d00a8c0@anybodyLAP> References: <20010117162929.A58519@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010117084116.A22875@drella.newsof.com> <20010117165843.A58911@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <3A65D103.D815E92@herculeez.com>
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I have implemented another option that works rather well... especially since I didn't want to buy wireless NICs for all of the machines behind my NAT gateway. Several vendors provide Access Points that simply bridge the traffic from wireless to wireline. Personally I have the D-Link DWL-1000AP access point and DWL-650 PCMCIA wireless NIC. The D-Link system (and many others) utilize several methods for access control. First, all devices on the wireless LAN have to be set to the same SSID in order to work. Secondly, you can limit access to a list of MAC addresses. Finally, if you're really paranoid, you can enter a hex value for an encryption key on each card and the traffic itself will be encrypted. I can't testify as to whether or not the D-Link PCMCIA card works in FreeBSD, but it wasn't quite clear in your message if more than the gateway itself was running FreeBSD. Anybody out there know for sure if it does work? Scott Milliken ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Loader" <simon@herculeez.com> To: "Rasputin" <rasputin@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>; <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 11:06 AM Subject: Re: BSD box as Airport replacement? > 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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