turn a firewall into a wireless access point?
I was curious if there was software to turn my firewall into a wireless access point? I've got a shorewall setup that has net, loc, and dmz zones. My plan was to make a dmzw zone for the wireless. I've got an Orinoco card + an ISA/PCMCIA adapter that I plan on using for the wireless connectivity. I'm looking for ways to assign the ESID, manage ACLs, WEP, etc, like you would on a standalone access point. I realize even with these protections that the wireless setup will be easy to compromise - that's why I'm planning on making it part of a dmz. Anyways, thanks for any pointers. Take care, Dale -- Dale E. Martin, Clifton Labs, Inc. Senior Computer Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cliftonlabs.com pgp key available -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: turn a firewall into a wireless access point?
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 08:16:10AM -0500, Dale E Martin wrote: I was curious if there was software to turn my firewall into a wireless access point? I've got a shorewall setup that has net, loc, and dmz zones. My plan was to make a dmzw zone for the wireless. I've got an Orinoco card + an ISA/PCMCIA adapter that I plan on using for the wireless connectivity. To get access point functionality out of an Orinoco card, you'll need to use a special driver with a non-free firmware. You can find out about those here: http://hunz.org/hermesap.html I'm looking for ways to assign the ESID, manage ACLs, WEP, etc, like you would on a standalone access point. I realize even with these protections that the wireless setup will be easy to compromise - that's why I'm planning on making it part of a dmz. Wireless interface control is done with 'iwconfig', included in the 'wireless-tools' package. That will allow you to set basic things like the ESSID and WEP key. For ACL, you can use iptables, or you can sometimes set special driver-specific options with 'iwpriv'. Have fun! - Keegan signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: turn a firewall into a wireless access point?
Well yeah, u just plug in your wi card, make shure its linux compatible and there are packages (apt-cache search them) that will help u in configuring the card to behave as an access point. vie, 07-11-2003 a las 07:16, Dale E Martin escribió: I was curious if there was software to turn my firewall into a wireless access point? I've got a shorewall setup that has net, loc, and dmz zones. My plan was to make a dmzw zone for the wireless. I've got an Orinoco card + an ISA/PCMCIA adapter that I plan on using for the wireless connectivity. I'm looking for ways to assign the ESID, manage ACLs, WEP, etc, like you would on a standalone access point. I realize even with these protections that the wireless setup will be easy to compromise - that's why I'm planning on making it part of a dmz. Anyways, thanks for any pointers. Take care, Dale -- Dale E. Martin, Clifton Labs, Inc. Senior Computer Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cliftonlabs.com pgp key available -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
turn a firewall into a wireless access point?
I was curious if there was software to turn my firewall into a wireless access point? I've got a shorewall setup that has net, loc, and dmz zones. My plan was to make a dmzw zone for the wireless. I've got an Orinoco card + an ISA/PCMCIA adapter that I plan on using for the wireless connectivity. I'm looking for ways to assign the ESID, manage ACLs, WEP, etc, like you would on a standalone access point. I realize even with these protections that the wireless setup will be easy to compromise - that's why I'm planning on making it part of a dmz. Anyways, thanks for any pointers. Take care, Dale -- Dale E. Martin, Clifton Labs, Inc. Senior Computer Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cliftonlabs.com pgp key available
Re: turn a firewall into a wireless access point?
Well yeah, u just plug in your wi card, make shure its linux compatible and there are packages (apt-cache search them) that will help u in configuring the card to behave as an access point. vie, 07-11-2003 a las 07:16, Dale E Martin escribió: I was curious if there was software to turn my firewall into a wireless access point? I've got a shorewall setup that has net, loc, and dmz zones. My plan was to make a dmzw zone for the wireless. I've got an Orinoco card + an ISA/PCMCIA adapter that I plan on using for the wireless connectivity. I'm looking for ways to assign the ESID, manage ACLs, WEP, etc, like you would on a standalone access point. I realize even with these protections that the wireless setup will be easy to compromise - that's why I'm planning on making it part of a dmz. Anyways, thanks for any pointers. Take care, Dale -- Dale E. Martin, Clifton Labs, Inc. Senior Computer Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cliftonlabs.com pgp key available
