[TriLUG] [OT] Setting up a home wireless network
Rodent of Unusual Size
Ken.Coar at Golux.Com
Sun Dec 15 16:49:25 EST 2002
as all here know, i have hardly a network nor a hardware maven. however,
even i managed to set up a wifi lan at home with relatively little pain.
i bought an apple airport for my base station. my home hard lan looks
something like this:
[linux box] [d-link 10/100 switch]
telocity/directv/dsl-du-jour ===[with two ]=========+ | | |
[nics ] | | +===== various
/ +========== systems
[ apple ] /
[airport]====+
[ (snow)]
the dual-nic linux box acts as my firewall on the outer nic, and dhcp server
and router on the inner nic. the airport has a hard-assigned ipa, and is
configured to act as a transparent bridge (no dhcp, no nat).
my various wireless card macs are registered in the dhcpd.conf file, so they
pick up predictable addresses. the airport *could* restrict access to specific
macas, but i don't have that set up right now. i run encryption at home;
my laptops are set up such that a wireless card in slot 0 uses encryption,
while it doesn't if it's in slot 1.
the hardest part of the whole bit was getting the laptop side of things working,
since i have multiple types of wireless cards.
fwiw, i wrote summat about this at <url:http://Ken.Coar.Org/musings/AirPort.html>.
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