I'm using my webmail client, so I'm sort of responding to this thread in reverse order; please excuse my backtracking...
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 03:18:09, Charles_McCallister@compuserve.com wrote:
>Anyway, I've been volunteered to get a secure wireless router. I'm looking
>for one with the most highly configurable software, both flashable
>firmware and upgradable firewall, that has the best of everything. For
>now, WEP 128-bit encryption with a chipset capable of upgrading to v1.0
>WPA, specific MAC filtering, and SSID cloaking.
>
Check out http://opensource.instant802.com/home.php. They have a Linux distro which can be flashed to an SRAM PCMCIA card and used to replace the OS in several APs. This gives the users/developers the ability to do a whole host of things in the AP, such as:
- Simultaneous Bridge + Access Point + Repeater
- Fully wireless operation
- Multipoint to Multipoint mesh networking
- 802.1d spanning tree protocol
- Layer 2 roaming
- Serial console login, complete with unix bash shell
Also, an organization using this technology is http://www.bawug.org/, and they have some interesting stuff on their site about wireless hardware, etc.
Finally, what might be more akin to what you want to accomplish is something along the lines of a captive portal, which can be created using a standalone system as an AP (thus providing firewalling, etc.). For this, Charles, have a look at NoCatAuth (http://nocat.net/wiki/), or for a more "all-in-one-box" approach, try Sputnik (http://www.sputnik.com/).
>I don't think this is too much to ask of a router and would appreciate any
>pointers to Wi-FI router reviews or personal anecdotes. IOW, what are you
>using and how do you like it?
>
Curently, I'm using LinkSys APs and wireless gateway devices (all-in-ones). These have been fairly reliable and price-competitive. However, I may move some clients to more capable equipment at some point in the future. For the hotspot deployments (haven't begun "selling" these yet), we may go with the Sputnik 120, which would give more of a "Boingo" feel to the users, but I need to eval one of the units, first.
HTH!
Lewis
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