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[djalexander at cox.net]

On Feb 1, 2005, at 6:04 AM, Craig Wolf wrote:

>  Many duties but I need assistance with
> that last one.  What PCI Wireless card is easiest to get working with
> Linux but I will be able to change the antenna?

This may or may not be the solution you want, but here's what I do.  I 
have a Dell desktop PC configured as a standalone firewall router 
(running IPCop, which is rather nice and can be configured for QoS).  
Instead of installing a wireless adapter, I use a Netgear 802.11g 
bridge, and just bridge to the LAN.  The Bridge itself is dumb, and 
only extends the LAN to my wireless clients.  The Dell handles NAT, 
DHCP, logging, firewall, etc.  This has been working great for me, and 
I didn't have to muss with wlan support in Linux.  The only thing I'm 
not sure of is how QoS and bridging play together, so you may want to 
look into that.  I originally did this so I could experiment with 
link-local stuff like zeroconf/rendezvous.

As an aside, I wouldn't suggest doing much more with your firewall than 
NAT, ipchains/iptables and DHCP if you're truly concerned with 
security.

-Darren

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Darren Alexander
Unix System Administrator
Meridian, Inc.
4805 G. St.
Omaha, NE 68117
(402) 501-7510
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Darren Alexander
Unix System Administrator
Meridian, Inc.
4805 G. St.
Omaha, NE 68117
(402) 501-7510