[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux app as a wireless access point

[Richard Strittmatter]

Richard, ( the other one.. )

I have successfully used the hostap drivers with a prism2.5 chipset
card. Basically, you setup the drivers, and setup the ethernet in a bridge
mode ( bridging wlan0 and eth0 ), and run a small daemon . The drivers
do most of the work. It made for a good dumb access point. We replaced
it with a real access point later on though. It was a lot less effort.

Richard
  

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> [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On Behalf Of Richard Geoffrion
> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 9:14 AM
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> Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Linux app as a wireless access point
> 
> Does anyone know of / use  a Linux based application that can 
> turn a wireless nic into an access point?  I'm not looking 
> for a WAP distro like say.. LEAF, but rather an application I 
> can run on my existing Slackware server.
> 
> Hmm...what if LEAF were run in User-Mode Linux? ( 
> http://usermodelinux.org ) I guess that would make the access 
> point app more secure....
> 
> thoughts anyone?
> 
> --
> Richard
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