[ale] OT: building a WAP with linux...

[Jerry Yu]

	I did it such thing recently, no AP, just another LAN on a 
seperate private network, using Ad-hoc mode (aka, peer-to-peer mode) under 
a stripped Redhat 9.  You will need  the wireless-tools pacakge (iwconfig 
and stuff ) plus driver for your own brand of wirless NIC. iptables 
 did the police work just fine. My next step is to set up IPSEC vpn on 
the wireless interface and allows thru only VPN, as someone 
pointed out 128-bit WEP encryption is still not enough.

On Sun, 4 May 2003, Christopher Fowler wrote:

#hostap is a piece of software to use.  I think Smoothwall has an
#WAP piece to it.  I saw something about it on "The Screen Savers".
#
#Chris
#
#On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 10:25:39PM -0400, John Wells wrote:
#> I am considering going with a PCI wireless card in my linux-based
#> firewall/router and a wireless pc card in my laptop...using the router as
#> a WAP.  Has anyone else done this?  Are there any drawbacks (as opposed to
#> buying a prebuilt WAP)?
#> 
#> Thanks,
#> 
#> John
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