From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Jan 17 8:39: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kciLink.com [208.184.13.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 238B337B6A3 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 08:38:46 -0800 (PST) Received: by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix, from userid 100) id 649022E440; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 11:38:45 -0500 (EST) From: Vivek Khera MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14949.51861.337509.342057@yertle.kciLink.com> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 11:38:45 -0500 To: Rasputin Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD box as Airport replacement? In-Reply-To: <20010117162929.A58519@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20010117162929.A58519@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.88 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>>>> "R" == Rasputin writes: R> That's plan of the month; R> fit a cablemodem-connected BSD box with a wireless NIC and R> run it as a gateway for iBooks. [ I removed -stable from the response since it is not relevent to that list ] Do it the easy way. Make your BSD box the gateway, and wire it to regular ethernet hub, and wire the AirPort to that same hub, and configure it to be a bridge. The rest just automagically works. As for clients, you'll need a Mac to configure the airport properly, but any 802.11 client can speak to it. I am right now typing on an iBook, and in the other room is a P5 running Linux with a Lucent "silver" card in it. I also set up the AirPort to do DHCP service so the laptops get one of 10 IPs automatically, but that's not a requirement to make it work. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message