From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Dec 19 22:31:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from lunatic.oneinsane.net (lunatic.oneinsane.net [66.42.61.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2452737B449 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 22:31:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by lunatic.oneinsane.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 63ADD1550E; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 09:18:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 09:18:19 -0800 From: Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson To: "Chad R. Larson" Cc: Alfred Perlstein , Will Andrews , Christoph Kukulies , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wireless Lan - recommendations Message-ID: <20011218091819.A31979@lunatic.oneinsane.net> Reply-To: Ron Rosson Mail-Followup-To: "Chad R. Larson" , Alfred Perlstein , Will Andrews , Christoph Kukulies , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200112100850.fBA8oNV85788@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <20011210142256.B23826@squall.waterspout.com> <20011210133744.H92148@elvis.mu.org> <20011212114909.D7869@freeway.dcfinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011212114909.D7869@freeway.dcfinc.com>; from chad@DCFinc.com on Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 11:49:09AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD lunatic.oneinsane.net 4.4-STABLE X-Moon: The Moon is Waxing Crescent (15% of Full) X-Opinion: What you read here is my IMHO X-WWW: http://www.oneinsane.net X-GPG-FINGERPRINT: 3F11 DB43 F080 C037 96F0 F8D3 5BD2 652B 171C 86DB X-Uptime: 9:17AM up 2 days, 20:37, 2 users, load averages: 0.11, 0.05, 0.04 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Chad R. Larson (chad@DCFinc.com) wrote: > > We've had good luck with the SMC 2655W. We've deployed 4 of them, > and have roving coverage of our whole building. They're SNMP > managable, they publish the MIB, they support MAC filtering (folks > may sniff your net, but they can't hijack it), do 128bit WEP, have > an option whereby they can be powered over the unused pairs in the > CAT5 cable, so you only have to run one wire. Last one we bought > was about $190 at Fry's. > Are you able to use WEP under FreeBSD to the access point? TIA -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ron Rosson ... and a UNIX user said ... The InSaNe One rm -rf * insane@oneinsane.net and all was /dev/null and *void() ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If only you'd use your powers for good instead of evil To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message