A neighbor and I want to back up each others' home office DSL lines via wireless, mainly for reliability, but also perhaps to provide a bit of extra bandwidth at peaks. We're both fairly adept with sysadmin on multiple platforms. His network is mostly Macs, ours is combination of Linux and Windows. He's got an Airport and we have a Linksys WAP54G and an older Addtron AP of some sort available. The houses are only about a block apart with clear line of sight, so the link itself shouldn't be difficult.
I'm not having much luck searching for pointers on the software side of this kind of installation. We'll still want to use our APs as usual, but also have them handle the bridge, if that's practical. We're using NAT with only one machine in the DMZ, and we'd like to keep our internal networks secure from each other. I'm not sure if it makes sense to worry about security on the bridge, since any traffic on it will be destined for the net at large. I don't think we'll worry about limiting each other's bandwidth usage, but that might become an issue, of course. Also, does anybody have any experience with this sort of thing? I'm wondering if we're likely to gain much reliability, since we're both dependent on the same PacBell CO. I don't know how many outages are the ISP v. the telco. FWIW, our ISPs are Sonic.net and Speakeasy. Thanks in advance for any info. -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
