[MLB-WIRELESS] Community Wireless Client project.

[Rob Kyle]

>Jamie Lovick wrote:
> 
> I am more suggesting something to run as a client
> rather than a wireless
> access point or access server.
> 
> This is for people who do not want to run an access
> point, but just a
> client on the network.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Jamie
> 
> --
> Jamie Lovick    <->  IT Consultant    <-> +614 1479



I've been investigating the possibility of doing this
over the past few weeks and made a fair bit of
progress.

I've been playing around with the Sputnik Linux
distro, and it seems like quite a good base for
building a "Community Wireless" distro.  It does a
pretty good job of automatically detecting and setting
up pretty much any wireless hardware.  

I don't think the distinction between AP and client
should neccessarily be that concrete - I would be very
interested in using an Ad-Hoc routing protocol like
AODV.

Running Mozilla from a boot CD is actually surprising
usable, services like Apache could be started as an
option.  I haven't had much of a chance to look into
it, but NoCatAuth appears to include all the tools
needed to setup a secure (authenticating) firewall.

If there is enough interest, maybe we should setup up
a working group, or write a white-paper.

Rob Kyle


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