On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 18:22:08 +1300 Don Gould wrote: > On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 16:09, Nick Rout wrote: > > > The places where you put the settings so that it comes up nicely and > > automatically are distro-specific - so yes distro is an issue unless you > > are building your own set of control scripts. > > > Yes, agree 100%. > > I'm not sure if my point was missed?
I don't think you had made your point, or told us what you wanted to do, until this post I am replying to (saying you posted about it previously is like giving me a haystack and telling me the wireless card is in there somewhere :-) > > I think my current biggest issue with more than one nic is that it requires > some real understanding of how routing tables work under linux and should be > set up. Have you read the NAG? http://www.tldp.org/LDP/nag2/ Also available as a pdf and various other formats - http://www.tldp.org/guides.html > > Things like, how should you design your IP ranges for a small local network > with DMZ with more than one WIFI networks (eg Home and Community WAN)... > How should you set the machine up so that a group of people can share the > same net connection via any of the above... > I'd take a look at pebble, a small (fits on 128M CF) distro designed for mesh wireless networking. > How should you set up traffic control and some accounting? > one interface per customer, count the bytes through that interface? I'm sure radius must do some accounting, you could look at that. > Can you set up pppoe sessions for users on the wifi to use? > not sure what pppoe has to do with it. > If you set up pptp server with tunnels then how to you route those with NAT > to give the users access to the net connections without the rest of the > networks. well i wouldn't use pptp as it has a bad security reputation. A lot will depend on this question: will each customer have a dedicated gateway to this network, ie a small dedicated linux box which has the end point of the vpn, or does the customer stick a wireless card in their laptop and expect access? > > While I understand most of these in theory I seem to spend hours to not end > up getting much running, so I'm interested in seeing the experts set them up. > > Cheers Don -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
