Sinabi ni Jeff Gutierrez noong Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 06:03:46PM -0500 GMT:
> Due to a recent development in my domicle, my wife, and I are in need of a wireless
>network. I'm currently planning on how to incorporate WiFi into my already existing
>home network. I just have a few questions, and I hope people who've done this before
>could help me iron out a few issues.
>
> My home network which has a few laptops, and a few desktops is gatewayed by a
>Pentium/Linux box running the usually services like dhcp, caching dns, NAT, firewall,
>etc.
>
About two months ago I bought an SMC Barricade 7004 AWBR and an SMC
Wirless PCMCIA Card from CompUSA (they had a special/rebate, cost was
~$150 for both). The AWBR is a wireless access point and a router that
can handle 10/100 for wired and is 802.11a compliant.
I used to have an old IBM Thinkpad as my firewall/router; I have since
replaced that w/ the AWBR. So far so good. Configuration of the AWBR can
be done w/ a browser (cannot use lynx or links) and is relatively easy.
You can check out the manual/specs from the SMC website. While the AWBR
does have a logging facility, it does not support syslog.
The PCMCIA card works with my wife's Vaio running Windows 98.
Unfortunately, I have not had a chance to try it out on my Linux laptop
yet. However some web sites have reported easy success in configuring
this for Linux. SMC while it does not officially support linux does
provide linux drivers.
I am still undecided whether this will be my final configuration due to
security concerns, i.e. drive-by sniffing, neighbor sniffing, etc. Most
probably I will:
1. Go back to using linux as a firewall.
2. Treat the wireless subnet as an "untrusted segment"
3. Only allow the wireless subnet to do external http/https
4. Tunnel smtp/pop over ssh to the firewall and my pop/postfix server
5. Figure out how to let the wireless segment access my mp3's on
my mp3/samba server.
6. Find a way to prevent neighbors/drive-by spammers from
"piggybacking" onto my wirelss net (or at least make it difficult)
HTH. If you have questions, we can take this off-list if you want.
Cheers,
G-3
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