Gerald Oskoboiny <
[email protected]> writes:
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 08:31:40AM -0500, Ian B. Jacobs wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I offered myself a geek treat and installed a Linksys
> > BEFW11P1 [1] EtherFast ? Wireless AP + Cable/DSL Router w/PrintServer.
Mmm geek treats.
> I'll probably buy something like that when my current wireless
> router (6+ year old Compaq Armada laptop) kicks the bucket.
> I'm curious how much it was? Pricewatch lists it starting at
> $182 USD.
Some of these devices you can flash [3] with Linux and can then use a
modest authentication scheme called NoCatAuth [4]. Why bother you
might ask? Well there's bound to be some feature lacking that you'd
like and would have more flexibility with a BSD or Linux solution.
Like Gerald's notification example.
Why would you want accounts (or have your node become part of an org
that maintains nodes), well you may not mind letting people get free
wireless from your 'hood but you may want them to identify themselves
for sake of accountability so they aren't launching spam from you or
up to mischief.
Sputnik [5] (from LinuxCare folks) made a bootable cd image with
dhcpd, noCatAuth, web ui, etc. for turning an old intel box/lapper
into an access point (not the peer to peer ad hoc networking) provided
you have a prism2 (and some others but not Lucent) based chipset
wireless card. Many cheapo linksys, dlink and such cards use these
chipsets.
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> I wonder if you have full control over the firewall features
> (which ports are open, etc); I guess you must.
Doubt it. Port forwarding would be cool so you can run services on a
machine behind it for example.
> I'm sure your neighbors will be grateful for their new connectivity :)
>
> Can you tell it to send you email whenever a new machine connects?
> I just wrote a little script [2] to do that on my laptop.
> (run from cron a la: "15 * * * * /usr/local/sbin/dhcpmon" )
>
> [2]
http://impressive.net/people/gerald/2002/03/dhcpmon
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> (may remind some of you of diskmon)
Why yes mon.
> > [1]
http://www.linksys.com/Products/product.asp?grid=22&prid=171
3.
http://opensource.instant802.com/
4.
http://www.nocat.net
5.
http://www.sputnik.org
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