On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 11:27:04PM +1200, James Tyson said:
Hi all
Just a couple of quick questions to you folks that know so much about 802.11. Firstly, do I really need a base station? I have my new ibook here and I want to grab the airport card to use with the Cisco Aironet base station at work, but I was thinking is it possible to just throw an orinoco card or something in my Linux box gateway and use that in place of a base station while I am at home?
Yes. You need to run in peer to peer mode, which means that you can't bridge (generally), you have to route, and it can be a bit of a mission to get machines to talk to each other. But it can be done.
If not, does anyone know of any base stations in the sub $500 range that work reasonably? I am not really that worried about WEP and SSID while I am at home, because I will set my DHCP server up to only assign my card an IP address and use an encrypted tunnel to get to the net.
We use the dlink one here, it seems to work ok, but it's not sub $500 - I'm not sure such a beast exists. Buy a PCI carrier board and another card, and do real ptp crypto - you'll be much happier. Cheers si --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog