Linux as a wireless AP

[Paul Mooring]

Thanks for the recomendation but I'd like to stay away from any
dedicated router distros, I've played around with IPCOP, pfsense, ect.
but use custom gentoo routers at work for their flexibility and have a
lot of custom scripts/tools that won't work properly on those systems,
and I'd miss glsa-check too much.

On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 09:48 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote:
> Paul Mooring wrote:
> >   I've got a couple of old machines I use a routers around my house
> > (gentoo based iptables routers) that I'd like to use an old pci wireless
> > card to make my AP and get rid of my old WRT54G, does anyone know of a
> > way to do this? Hopefully with a decent howto or guide, or else know of
> > a reason why this is a bad idea/security problem. (btw I the wireless
> > card I have is a ralink, and I think I have an atheros around somewhere)
> > 
> 
> I'd give IPCop a shot on one of those old machines. It's 'blue' 
> interface is designed for wireless. I think you'll find IPCop full 
> featured, and much easier to maintain/configure than your gentoo 
> routers. FWIW, if you really miss building everything from scratch, you 
> can compile IPCop yourself from sources as well. It's based on LFS. ;)
>