Re: OT: Wireless questions
Hi David,
Just couple words about wireless equipment you can deploy for your
home wireless network.
With wireless PCI card you would get small(around 5dBi) antenna which
would be at the back of your server. If your server is far at the back
of the house(mine is in the garage, for example) your chances in
getting stable signal is very low.
I would suggest to go for Linksys WRT54GS unit. The beauty of this AP
is that you can flash it with community firmware(see www.openwrt.org)
and you would have nice powerful AP fully compatible with Linux(the
openwrt firmware came from Debian, I reckon). And, of course, with
Linux on your WRT you can put firewall, etc. Then you are free to
connect it anywhere you like on your network.
Cheers,
Yuriy
On 8/6/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <roberto@familiasanchez.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 05:53:35PM +0930, David Purton wrote:
> > I know, way OT, but I thought I'd pick people's brains on here anyway.
> >
> > I'm thinking about adding wireless connectivity to my home LAN.
> >
> > At present it looks like this:
> >
> > +--------+
> > | switch |-- wired private network
> > +--------+
> > |
> > eth0
> > |
> > +-----------------+
> > | debian linux | +------------+
> > | server/firewall |-- eth1 --| adsl modem |-- internet
> > | gateway/router | +------------+
> > +-----------------+
> >
> >
> > What is my best option?
> >
> > I was thinking of just putting another ethernet card in my server and
> > getting a wireless access point to attach to it. Then I could only allow
> > traffic through to/from the wired network through a VPN (probably using
> > openVPN, since I have used this before and it's easy enough to
> > configure).
> >
> > What are the disadvantages of doing it this way?
> >
> > And what hardware would you recommend to get this setup to play nicely
> > with linux?
> >
> > I guess the other option is getting a wireless router which I could
> > attach to my switch.
> >
> > How does this compare to using just an access point? Is it better?
> >
> > Presumably it would be possible to setup the router so that it would
> > only allow VPN traffic through to my server and block everything else
> > between the wired and wireless networks - giving equivalent security.
> >
> > Again what hardware would you recommend? Most wireless routers seem to
> > include a wired switch as well - which I don't really need.
> >
>
> You could just get a wireless card and make the server act as a WAP.
> That would be cheaper and more configurable.
>
> -Roberto
>
> --
> Roberto C. Sanchez
> http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
>
>
>
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