[TriLUG] Wireless Broadband

[Shane O'Donnell]

OpenWRT doesn't do BGP/OSPF/et al natively, but with Quagga...

http://www.quagga.net/about.php

it will do some very cool things...get Quagga for OpenWRT at:

http://openwrt.org/ipkg/

and enjoy building a "real" network on gear that was never intended to
support it... ;-)

Shouldn't you be working on your Wifi/Bluetooth Solar-powered helmet cam?

Shane O.

On 6/8/05, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On a somewhat related note, I finally got OpenWRT working in WET
> (wireless bridge mode).  Not too terribly difficult, though the
> instructions is are a bit off.
> 
> Here's how you do it (both units must be infrastructure mode, btw):
> 
> Put access point(router/whatever) A in AP mode:
> 
> Put access point B in WET mode (nvram set wl0_mode=wet nvram commit
> wifi down wifi up) and make sure that your WET box has the same SSID
> (and wep settings, if they exist on A. Point "A").
> 
> You can even turn off SSID broadcasting on AP "A" and it still works.
> With the coolness of OpenWRT you can then restrict by MAC address and
> throw something over the line like IPSec VPN to encrypt everything
> between the AP.  You can do scads of other cool stuff too.
> 
> OpenWRT is a good solution for point-to-point or point-to-many-point
> links.  In the grand scheme of things I can see putting up a wireless
> backup network on a multi-building small campus with these buggars,
> perhaps on a /28 network or something.  Maybe smaller, I dunno, would
> depend on the requirements.
> 
> I wonder if these things do BGP, OSPF, and the like... hum.. when I
> get some free time when all my projects calm down I just might try to
> find that out.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> 
> On 6/7/05, David McDowell <turnpike420 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > WRAL news at 10pm tonight just said Raleigh was #1 in the nation with
> > amount of public wifi access, so maybe roam away??  :)  ... Seattle
> > being #1 in public wifi access ... and on a side note, NC is 3rd in
> > BioTech behind Mass and CA.
> >
> >  :)
> >
> >
> > On 6/7/05, Reginald Reed <reginald.reed at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Rumor has it that 1xEV-DO is coming to the Triangle this summer.  I
> > > just signed up for the service 9 days ago and have since tried the
> > > Broadband access service in both Orlando and at a DFW airport
> > > (terminal C from the AA lounge).  It is excellent.  The service
> > > available in the Triangle now is 1xRTT and it certainly is slower, but
> > > I still find it usable, even with an IPSEC tunnel riding on top of it.
> > >  I have the Novatel V620 card with unlimited access.
> > >
> > > --Reggie
> > >
> > > On 6/6/05, Aaron Bockover <abockover.trilug at aaronbock.net> wrote:
> > > > Okay, so Raleigh just isn't full of open WiFi hot-spots, and it'd really
> > > > be nice to have wireless broadband. Is anyone subscribed to such a
> > > > service? Does one really even exist yet in this area?
> > > >
> > > > I tried signing up for the free Nextel Wireless Broadband trial last
> > > > year, but didn't get accepted. It's been a year, the trial is over, and
> > > > it doesn't look like they've rolled the service out publicly.
> > > >
> > > > Verizon has wireless broadband, but Raleigh isn't one of its supported
> > > > cities.
> > > >
> > > > Are we just that insignificant? I would really hate to have to start
> > > > using my cellphone for dial-up... that's just asinine!
> > > >
> > > > Best,
> > > > Aaron
> > > >
> > > >
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