On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 09:34, James Sparenberg wrote: > 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.
And if I could read I would have seen the first line... grrr.. sorry. > > James > > ------ > > > > ---- > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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