On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 12:21:40PM -0700, Tim Howe wrote: > Is anybody in Eugene still thinking about Wi-Fi? > > I just thought I'de mention that code is now available (At least for BSD) > that can turn certain wireless cards into wireless access points by > putting them in AP mode. This can turn a $90 wireless card into a $850(?) > access point. Also, using IP sec, you can eliminate the weakness of WEP > security. We have tried it here and it works (at least between two > OpenBSD machines).
I was going to send a post to advocacy, but ... OpenBSD 3.1 will be released June 1, 2002. Snapshots (VERY close to what will be the official release) are still on OpenBSD mirrors. Short list of new features and improvements: 1) Major improvements in wireless card support a) more cards supported b) above mentioned AP mode c) ability to use wireless cards in ethernet bridges 2) pf matures a) ability to arbitrarily label rules for accounting purposes b) NAT on ethernet bridge c) authpf - authenticating gateway user shell d) 'route' option e) stateful filtering for non TCP/UDP/ICMP protocols f) ability to manually add states 3) Other a) much improved pthreads b) wsconsctl more polished c) VM improvements d) many mg improvements e) regression tests f) extattr support (extended attribute vnode meta-data from TrustedBSD) g) userland hardware crypto h) support ALTQ in more drivers 4) Ports a) pf support added to proxies b) ethereal now supports OpenBSD's 'hacked for pf' tcpdump c) various improvements in FLAVOR and MULTI_PACKAGE handling d) KDE 3.0 final And, of course, OpenSSH 3.2. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
