Re: Using Debian as an Access Point?
On Saturday 25 December 2004 21:48, Bruce Park wrote:
> Frederik Dannemare wrote:
> > On Thursday 23 December 2004 05:45, Bruce Park wrote:
> >>>At Sat, 18 Dec 2004 04:03:30 +0100, Frederik Dannemare wrote:
> >>>>On Friday 17 December 2004 15:10, Bruce Park wrote:
> >>>>>Hey guys,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Is there anyway to use Debian as an access point?
> >>>>
> >>>>Yes, it's certainly possible. Get a card which supports the
> >>>> hostap driver. I have some notes which you may be able to use.
> >>>><http://www.sentinel.dk/cookbook/?Wireless_cards_%2F_access_point
> >>>>s>
> >>>>
> >>>>Don't mind the first half of the recipe where I absolutely feel
> >>>>like using the hostap driver for the non-AP nodes. Today I simply
> >>>>use the orinoco driver for new nodes since this works
> >>>>out-of-the-box with the Sarge installer, anyway.
> >>>>
> >>>>Best regards,
> >>>>--
> >>
> >>I would like to use my router (Linux machine) to act as an AP. It
> >>looks like this can be done according to the link above.
> >>
> >>Now, can anyone recommend a card that will work in Linux?
> >
> > I'm using a Netgear MA311 802.11b wireless adapter as AP.
> >
> >>Furthermore, the link only shows WEP encryption. I want to be able
> >> to do WPA. Is this possible using a Debian machine?
> >
> > Don't know about WPA, but you should probably use some sort of VPN
> > solution for your WLAN, anyways. I use OpenVPN for various reasons.
>
> Why a VPN solution? I was thinking of making the entire machine a VPN
> endpoint once I have the time to sort out machine.
WEP/WPA is too easy to break. Lots of info out there about the problems
with it. On the other hand, if you cycle keys often and traffic volume
on your wlan is low, you are probably safe. For example I tried
aircrack against my wlan some time ago, but "gave up" after 10 days or
so. Not enough traffic to analyze.
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