For 3 months I was at my sister-in-law's, and was leaf-less; so I bought a Linksys Wireless Access Point/Router/4 Port switch combo. After getting into my new house, I am using the switch for my internal network, and I don't use the WAN port, since Leaf is doing that job for me. If you wanted in a separate location in the house, then you could connect any switched port to you main switch's uplink port, or use a cross-over cable.
Keeping everyone on one subnet makes it easier, but does leave you open to war-drivers, or neighbours sneaking in. Most AP's allow you to restrict access to MAC addresses, and there is WEP (although it is lightweight). If you want more security, you could add a second nic in your leaf box and then only allow that subnet to get out, and not to your wired network. It just depends on your level of paranoia. ;-)
Cheers,
-edt
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From: "Todd Pearsall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Peter Nosko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,"leaf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [leaf-user] Using a wireless router with LEAF (Dachstein, Bering)
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 22:58:30 -0500
Not sure if this is what you want to do but...
I recently wanted to add some wireless nodes to my existing wired network.
What I really needed was just an Access Point that I would hang off a drop
in the middle of the house to get wireless service through the house. When
I looked around the wireless routers were cheaper and more readily available
the wireless access points so I bought one (D-Link).
Since I didn't need the router functions thanks to LEAF I turned off DHCP
serving, assigned it an IP on my network for management and plugged a cable
from the my switch into one of the LAN ports and left the WAN port empty.
It works fine as a access point and has three free ports I can use for the
computer and PS2 near the access point.
- Todd
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From: "Peter Nosko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [leaf-user] Using a wireless router with LEAF (Dachstein, Bering)
> Hi all. What's the simplest way to go about this? I'd like to cut the
tether to my notebook. Is
> it as simple as hooking up the router off the hub on my internal network
and letting it create a
> separate subnet? Thanks.
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