[lug] 802.11b wireless

[Hugh Brown]

I sit corrected.  Good to have the info esp. since for some of us
getting approval from the finance dept (a.k.a wife) for the purchase of
an access point can be difficult.

Also nice to have the link mentioned earlier by John.

Thanks much,

Hugh


On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 16:59, J. Wayde Allen wrote:
> On 28 Feb 2002, Hugh Brown wrote:
> 
> > As I was trying to get my wireless stuff working a while ago, I seem to
> > remember reading that linux won't work as an access point.  You either
> > ad hoc and have a closed network, or you get an access point to get to
> > the outside network.
> 
> Well ... I was just looking at an O'Reilly document on how to build an
> access point using Linux
> 
>    http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2001/03/06/recipe.html
> 
> It makes sense to me that one would need to talk to the NIC on one hand
> and the 802.11 card on the other.  It also makes sense to have dhcpd and
> NAT running in order to create a pool of IP addresses on the wireless
> side.  However, in my case, there is already a dhcp server running, and
> the thought was to simply use that to hand out IP addresses to any
> wireless nodes that would try to connect.  Not sure if that is possible,
> or even if it is a good idea?
> 
> - Wayde
>   (wallen at lug.boulder.co.us)
>