Rick; Good advice. Let me add that if you enter the MAC addresses of the workstation laptops into the routing table you can restrict access to the server side to just those laptops. Otherwise any wireless laptop within range will be able to see, and access, the network. That can get nasty - voice of experience talking!
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tomlinson, Steven B Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 2:29 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] Advice for a Mobile Network Aloha Rick, Based on my experience, for "cheap, easy, and reliable" I would suggest using a combination wireless access point/router/switch for the server-side. If you use an external antenna you can greatly increase the range of the wireless network. Steven B. Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pacific Telehealth and Technology Hui www.PacificHui.org > -----Original Message----- > From: Frederick D. S. Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 12:39 PM > To: Hardhats > Subject: [Hardhats-members] Advice for a Mobile Network > > > Dear Hardhats, > > I am looking for network guidance for a friend. He is purchasing five > Dell laptops to be used as a mobile VistA demonstration. One > would be a > VistA server, the other four would be workstations running > CPRS Chart. > The goal is to set them up with some kind of wireless network > that keeps > them in a stable network with each other as long as they are > kept close > together. As a group, they would travel widely, being set up > from place > to place to demo VistA. I think we are talking about VistA on GT.M on > Linux. > > I know Orinoco network cards work well with Linux--I'm using one right > now--but what's the best way to get them talking together reliably? > Should he get a separate wireless network hub for them to patch into > together, or can the server be made somehow to serve as the hub? > > I'm looking for the usual VistA combo of cheap, easy, and > reliable. How > would you solve this? > > Yours truly, > Rick Marshall > WorldVistA > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE > LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
