[ale] Wireless networking options?

[wjames at mindspring.com (L. Wayne James)]

As one who has the router/NAT and access point....

I think you should be able to use the "all-in-one" box inside your normal 
network.  You could tell it to pass all ports through the NAT or, perhaps, 
isolating the wireless devices on their own segment may have some value.  As 
I write this, though, I get the shivers thinking about all that wireless 
resource "hidden" from my firewalling tools.

What I don't know is whether the all-in-one treats the switch and the wireless 
as the same segment.  (Think "one big hub".)  That becomes important when you 
start trying to isolate "trusted" from "untrusted" resources.

Wayne


On Thursday 10 April 2003 04:21 pm, George Carless wrote:
> Cool beans -- thanks!
>
> Having said that (and this is sure to annoy people ;)) -- if I can get an
> all-in-one router/hub thing for less money (these WAPs look a little more
> costly than some of those), would it be worth my doing so and freeing up a
> machine?  My Linux box runs NAT and FTP (which could be behind the
> firewall) as well as a squid proxy... I don't use it for much else.  Any
> thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> --G
>
>  --G
>
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Thomas Holmquist wrote:
> > You want a Wireless Access Point (WAP)
> >
> > heres a linksys one:
> > http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?cgiurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com
> >%2Fws%2F&krd=1&from=R8&MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&ht=1&SortProperty=MetaEnd
> >Sort&query=linksys+wap11
> >
> > Those dont have NAT routers built in :)
>
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