From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Jan 17 9: 6:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from post.smarty.net (unknown [195.12.1.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CCA3C37B404 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 09:06:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 47517 invoked from network); 17 Jan 2001 17:07:46 -0000 Received: from herculeez.demon.co.uk (HELO athena.hq.herculeez.com) (158.152.217.198) by hercules.hiway.co.uk with SMTP; 17 Jan 2001 17:07:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 42221 invoked from network); 17 Jan 2001 17:05:38 -0000 Received: from madoka.hq.herculeez.com (HELO herculeez.com) (192.168.0.23) by athena.hq.herculeez.com with SMTP; 17 Jan 2001 17:05:38 -0000 Message-ID: <3A65D103.D815E92@herculeez.com> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 17:06:11 +0000 From: Simon Loader Reply-To: simon@surf.org.uk Organization: simon@surf.org.uk X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en, fr, de, cs MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rasputin Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD box as Airport replacement? References: <20010117162929.A58519@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010117084116.A22875@drella.newsof.com> <20010117165843.A58911@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- Simon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message