June 2003
Intermediate to advanced
184 pages
5h 8m
English
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Access Point Management Software
If you have a Mac handy, you are in
luck. The AirPort Admin utility that ships with the AirPort is
excellent. As with their entire product line, Apple has gone out of
their way to make the whole AirPort system easy to set up, even for
beginners. If you don’t own a Mac, you have a couple
of options. It turns out that the innards of the Graphite AirPort are
virtually identical to the Orinoco RG-1000 (previously, the Lucent
Residential Gateway). That means that the RG configuration
utility for Linux (called cliproxy) also works
fine with the AirPort. Unfortunately, as the Lucent product family
has been sold and resold several times in the past couple of years
(the same product line has been called Lucent, Orinoco, Agere, Avaya,
and Proxim, and probably a couple of others that
I’ve missed), the cliproxy
utility seems to have disappeared from
the Proxim web site. Copies of it are still floating around on
various message boards; it is a tremendously useful utility if you
can find it. Jon Sevy has done extensive work with the
AirPort, and has released an open source Java client that configures
the AirPort (both Graphite and Snow) and
the RG-1000. You can get a copy from http://edge.mcs.drexel.edu/GICL/people/sevy/airport/. He has also compiled a tremendous amount if information on the inner workings of the AirPort, and has many resources online at this site. Since his utility is open source, cross-platform, and works very well, we’ll use it in the following ...
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