James Knott wrote: > Jay Smith wrote: >> >> Hello, >> So once, I configured a wired router using SuSE. It was a pretty easy >> take to >> me just a little tedious. I was wondering, anyone out there ever try to >> make a Wireless router using an opensuse box. I know I can probably just >> connect an access point to my current opensuse router but I once had >> someone tell me that if you have a wifi card in the system, you can make >> a wireless router out of a Linux system. Any ideas? Thanks. >> > You could do that. As far as the router function goes, there's no > difference between ethernet & wifi. My firewall is based on SUSE 10 and > has 3 ethernet ports. The 3rd one is for connecting to my WiFi access > point. There is no reason why I couldn't have used a WiFi NIC instead. Hi, perfectly true. However, if you think of "box" you might also consider a spezialised linux for the task. I would recommend to have a look at ex. ipcop (http://www.ipcop.org)
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