Rod,
Seems to me that pages like:
http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch13_:_Linux_Wireless_Networking
make it fairly plain that with the right card you will get a PC-based AP
working & hang the extra bits like iptables off it. Which is an
achievement in itself - I've never done it.
Others have commented that you might be better off focusing on specific
other solutions like Cisco, but a) many on-ground examples you might
come across would not be Cisco-based so you'll have to manage somehow
else and b) if you go to e.g. Cisco, you will only learn that
skill-set. So I'm all for starting out as you are suggesting. Then
maybe look at an AP modified with Tomato. Then see if you can find a
secondhand Cisco e.g. 1xxx or 2xxx series if you come into the funding -
I would not bother with the basic 800 series devices because they are
made in hardware-specific models rather than having plug-in hardware
bits.
hth
Kevin
On 13 October 2011 19:14, Rod Butcher <rbutc...@hyenainternet.com
<mailto:rbutc...@hyenainternet.com>> wrote:
My budget for this is tiny, $100 max for the whole setup, as it's
only for training, and I don't want to acquire hardware I will have
no use for afterward...
So I'm trying to get specific info on whether it is possible to
configure a Linux PC with a cheap 80211g/n PCI card to provide a
reasonably full-featured WAP - user/computer credential validation,
data encryption, network and Internet access.
It's fairly simple to configure multiple Ethernet network cards on a
Linux box to provide routing and Internet access (iptables & NAT)...
I had assumed a similar software solution should be possible for
wifi-based LAN. ??
thanks
Rod
On 10/13/11 10:48, Ken Wilson wrote:
I have seen them at Reverse Garbage in Addison Rd Marrickville,
where
whole computing setups have been discarded including routers,
their
price is always not much.
Ken
On 12/10/11 22:17, Heracles wrote:
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Sounds like my best option is just to use a cheap PCI
wireless card as a
WAP - can I do that ? - and use the PC as the router.
Does this sound
right ? My question then is, if serious businesses use
expensive
standalone programmable devices to provide WAPs, rather
than the $100
routers at my local PC shop, how realistic is the setup
I will be
training on ? I will be configuring the PC as the
router, along with
security, encryption, iptables etc... how closely do the
skills involved
relate to those involved in a realword business setup ?
thanks
Rod
Depends upon the situation. It could be a worthwhile
exercise to get a
cheap second hand CISCO router, as one of my students did,
and learn
with that. A relatively new one should be quite cheap and
will give you
skills in their scripting.
Heracles
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