Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 15:49:16 -0500 From: Mike DeGraw-Bertsch <mbertsch@radioactivedata.org> To: bmah@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Article on wireless networking on FreeBSD Message-ID: <3CAE0DCC.2070205@radioactivedata.org> References: <3CAC17E4.30205@radioactivedata.org> <200204051914.g35JEaif026629@intruder.bmah.org>
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BTW, I should mention that this article will be appearing in the May issue of SysAdmin Magazine. CMP got non-exclusive rights to it, and no copyright, so there shouldn't be any problem there. Just wanted to mention that so no one is surpised or anything. Actually, that makes me realize that I don't know the Doc Project's stance towards this at all. I've assumed that it won't be a problem because I own all the rights to the article, but now I'm worried that there may be? Anyway, if there is a problem, I'll write a new 802.11 article so folks' time isn't wasted. -Mike Bruce A. Mah wrote: > If memory serves me right, Mike DeGraw-Bertsch wrote: > > >>With some relatively minor changes, I think it'd be a useful part of the >>handbook. It's online at >>http://www.radioactivedata.org/wireless_freebsd.html. I'd appreciate >>any thoughts, comments, critiques, or criticism. > > > Hi Mike-- > > I agree that this would be useful to have...whether as a part of the > Handbook or a separate article is not clear to me yet. The Handbook > *is* lacking any coverage at all on 802.11* networking. > > High-level comments: > > In general I liked the article...there's a lot of good information in > here. The biggest criticism I have about it is that it's not clear at > the outset what the subject of the article is. In other words, is it > about 802.11* networks on FreeBSD in general, or setting up a FreeBSD > machine to act as a BS, or...???... An introduction might help. > > You mentioned that many commercial APs don't do IPsec or IPv6. That's > true, but the Aironet 352 AP I have doesn't need to. It's just a > link-layer bridge...I routinely run IPv6 over it, no problem. I > suspect most of the APs that don't have aspirations of being routers > work the same way. > > I don't necessarily agree with the "stick with 40-bit WEP cards and save > your money" comment. Last time I bought Aironet PCMCIA cards, I thought > that 128-bit was the same price as 40-bit anyways. (Granted, I was *at* > Cisco at the time.) > > "Cool. How do I set it up?" It isn't obvious here whether this is for > a laptop/workstation or for a BS. It might be better to more > explicitly separate the setup for a typical client machine with the > setup needed for a BS. I'd imagine more people have to do the former > than the latter. > > "Wireless configuration": I thought the frequency setting was ignored > in BSS mode? I might be wrong on this. Also, I put most of the > functionality of your script into /etc/start_if.an0 (for example) so > that I don't need to touch pccard.conf. /etc/rc.network and /etc/ > pccard_ether call the startup script for each interface automatically, > if needed. > > "Client Configuration": I was confused here. What was the part I'd > been reading for the last few pages before this? > > "Hey, is this secure?": Might be nice to say here that there is no > single technique to prevent hijacking of a network or eavesdropping, > but a combination of mechanisms can be effective (e.g. WEP + IPsec). > > Nice article...hope these comments are of some help. Thanks for putting > it up! > > Bruce. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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