Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 11:38:45 -0500 From: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com> To: Rasputin <rasputin@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD box as Airport replacement? Message-ID: <14949.51861.337509.342057@yertle.kciLink.com> In-Reply-To: <20010117162929.A58519@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20010117162929.A58519@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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>>>>> "R" == Rasputin <rasputin@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> 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
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