All you gurus probably know this but for the newbies like me this is great...
I get my internet access thru an 802.11b signal via an Airport card, not cable/dsl/dialup. I wanted to take this signal and share it with the other computers on my home network, preferably wirelessly. I bought an SMC Barricade wireless router, and then a Linksys WAP11 to add to my 10/100 switch/hub to try to accomplish this. And, it didn't work. Until I installed IPNetShareX (freeware) and used that to share the internet access. Now it goes into my host computer via Airport card (with rooftop external antenna attached) and into the SMC Barricade via the ethernet cable. The SMC is configured with Static IP which it is getting from the host computer's IPNetShareX software. The SMC then distributes the signal in the usual way using DHCP. I have enabled MAC address filtering to make it just a little bit harder for uninvited guests (though I'm in a rural area, so it shouldn't be a problem). Doah! (as Homer would say) Now if I could just get Win98 under Virtual PC to recognize my Airport card so I can run NetStumbler and OR Manager, I'd be all set! I'm sure there are some security issues I should be aware of, and I'd appreciate hearing from you gurus about what I can do that doesn't involve setting up a Linux server and an SQL database or such. b.t. -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
