Brian- Is interesting, but the question of reliability comes to mind. I've had various consumer boxes with different firmware go belly up days to months after being flashed with various codes. It would also mean that without central management and monitoring, almost every reported trouble might require a service call.
Also- regardless of what you do, you may find that students still bring their own... Which begs the question, have you considered just letting them bring their own as an interim solution? (Wince with me, all you security-types:)) -Lee Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Syracuse University 315 443-3003 -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian J David Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:35 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Open source code for AP's I was wondering if there are other schools who have deployed or where thinking of deploying open source code flashed access points. The students want wireless in the dorms as you all know but because of budget and time we are looking into some alternative temporary solutions, like dd-wrt flashed linksys access points. We where thinking of deploying a pre-configured AP with the antenna power setting set to it's lowest power level and a few other minor configuration. I know this could be a challenge in managing these devices (although they have appliances/software out there that can manage them). If we could give the students an alternative to bringing into their dorm a rogue AP until we can get a permanent wireless infrastructure the benefits "could" out weight the headaches. Comments? Brian J David Network Systems Engineer Boston College ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
