November 2007
Beginner
642 pages
15h 43m
English
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Chapter 4. Building a Linux Wireless Access Point
4.0. Introduction
Wireless networking is everywhere. Someday, we'll have built-in wireless receivers in our heads. Meanwhile, times are improving for Linux wireless administrators, if you shop carefully and buy wireless interface cards with good Linux support and WPA2 support. Using well-supported wireless interfaces means you'll be able to dive directly into configuring your network instead of hassling with funky driver problems. This chapter shows how to build a secure, flexible, robust combination wireless access point/router/Internet firewall using Pyramid Linux on a Soekris single-board computer. It supports wireless and wired Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X clients sharing a broadband Internet connection and LAN services. Just one big happy clump of wired and wireless clients together in harmony.
Why go to all this trouble? Because you'll have more control, all the powerful features you could ever want, and save money.
You don't have to have an all-in-one-device. The recipes in this chapter are easy to split apart to make separate devices, such as a dedicated firewall and a separate wireless access point.
I use Pyramid Linux, Soekris or PC Engines WRAP boards, and Atheros wireless interfaces because they are battle-tested and I know they work well. See Chapter 2 to learn how to use these excellent little routerboards.
The example configurations for the different services, such as DHCP, DNS, authentication, iptables, and so forth work ...
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