Linux as a wireless AP

Paul Mooring drpppr242 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 6 10:32:44 MST 2009


I've seen it before but all the routing/firewall stuff is already
configured and running great, so I'm not really looking to redo any of
that I just want to add an AP to my existing set-up.

On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 10:25 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> Have you looked into ShoreWall yet? 
> 
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> Mooring
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> Subject: Linux as a wireless AP
> 
>   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)
> 
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