On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 01:17, Mark Chou wrote: > > I already use a mandrake (8.0) box for my home NAT/firewall, and my home network at >present is wired only. I would like to have a wireless access point hosted from this >box as well, to have a little mobile computing available for the folks at home. I've >tried one appliance wireless router/access points for the SOHO use, but found that it >didn't have enough compute power for "wireless speed" WEP (thru-put was drastically >reduced), so I returned it. > > Instead I'm figuring it ought to be possible for the wireless nic (in conjunction >with my MDK NAT box) to act as a wireless access point. But I'm not confident that >this can be so. Can someone provide a sanity check? > > 1. Is it possible to have a wireless nic (in conjunction with a MDK box) act as a >wireless access point? I'm assuming yes provided I use HostAP. > 2. What configuration parameters are necessary? Do I specifically need to have the >"wireless segment" be on a different subnet, or can I use the same subnet as my wired >lan? If possible I'd prefer having the wireless segment be on the same subnet as the >wired lan, mainly for ease of administration. > 3. Would I be giving up any feature/performance/security doing it this way instead >of using a dedicated appliance access point? I'm actually hoping that the >performance can be a bit better, especially in the WEP case. > 4. any howto's that are pertinent to this specific issue? > > > -
There is a project that exists to do just this. It's called hostap. check it out via freshmeat. James ------ > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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