Re: Wireless Networking
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Paul Vanovertveld wrote:
> I build my own accesspoint with an Embedded PC and two Elsa Airlancer MC-11
> (WEP128), one for the Accesspoint the other for my laptop.The Accesspoint
> runs Potato r3, not even the kernel had to be rebuild. The Elsa Card is
> actually a Lucent Orinoco Gold.
>
i've decided to jump on the wireless bandwagon, and have decided to do
essentially what you're doing. i have a few questions about your
experience.
with a build your own access point, are you able to talk to more than one
wireless card at a time?
does your access point dole out the IP #s and do NAT?
i actually intend to have 1 box be the firewall and access point:
[To borrow Vivek's drawing]
wired_network
(fuzzy blue anomaly)---[c'modem]----[firewall]----*hub*--machine
|
+-wireless_card ... laptop
it sounds like your setup was pretty straight forward. any catches to
watch out for? i'll be using D-Link DWL-650 and DWL-500 (500=650+PCI to
PCMCIA converter).
regards,
craig
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Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Illinois
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