[PLUG] Creating linux based wireless access point, tips/pointers requested

[Timothy Selivanow]

On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 15:28 -0800, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> Timothy Selivanow wrote:
> > I'm trying to make a wireless access point using CentOS 5 with an
> > Atheros based WiFi NIC (Atheros Communications, Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC
> > (rev 01)) and using the madwifi drivers from ATrpms.net
> > (madwifi-0.9.3.3-39.el5).
> 
> This sounds like you're using a full/existing PC.  Way overkill.
> 
> I use a mix of Netgear and Linksys WRT54GLs with OpenWrt.
> Routes, bridges, firewalls, and much more or much less, it's up to you.
> All with a tiny energy and space footprint.  Fanless too.
> 

I'm using an old Dell, and it's very silent.  I started using a PC
because I have a routed subnet in addition to some internal routed
networks and I didn't even want to attempt that with a "consumer" level
piece of equipment; the wireless NIC will be another interface with
routing/acls for internal and external use.  Yes, it may be over-kill,
but this new firewall/router I'm building has 5 ethernet ports (4 port +
1 port cards) and a wifi card (mostly for future expansion) :D

In the past I had thought about having a modem card for auto-failover,
but I haven't ever needed it really to date (my current hardware has
one).  I've also thought about adding DUN to it too so I could dial into
it...but that too I don't think I'd ever use...


--Tim
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