[nycwireless] Routing around the problem

[Anthony Townsend]

http://www.benhammersley.com/dparchives/007920.html#comments

Restored

As I mentioned yesterday, the wireless access at XML 2003 costs $40, 
which is somewhat annoying. Happily, here in the News Standards Summit, 
we’re cheating.

In answer to the long held question, can a TiBook with one Wifi card 
act as a repeater and relay access to everyone else in the room without 
them having to pay, the answer it turns out is yes. How do we do this? 
Well, first turn off the built-in Apache installation on the OSX 
machine that is online. Edit httpd.conf to load mod_proxy (there are 
about 20 or so lines to uncomment). Turn Apache back on. Go to network 
prefs, and find out your assigned IP address. Write it on a piece of 
paper, and pass it around the room, telling them to set it as their web 
proxy.

The naughty RSS-people-at-the-back of the room are all online. Hurrah! 
(Bill Kearney worked this out. Blame him)
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