[MLB-WIRELESS] Bridge vs router vs AP

[Ryan Abbenhuys]

Well if you *had* a Prism2 based wireless card all you need is the driver from
http://hostap.epitest.fi/
but the enterasys card, being just an orinoco, is a hermes chipset *not* Prism2.

You may have some limited success getting the card working with the driver,
but they aren't capable of the true access point mode like the Prism2 cards.



>Using a linux box with the enterasys card acting as an AP and a router what

>drivers and software would I need?
>ta  george
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>> unless you have a Prism based wireless card and you use the Linux
>> Prism2 Host AP driver which in fact uses the built in AP functions in
>> the Prism chipset in order to function like a normal AP.  You don't
>> need any routing setup in your box for this.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ben Holko" <Ben.Holko at GlobalCenter.net.au>
>> To: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
>> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 3:29 PM
>> Subject: RE: Re[2]: [MLB-WIRELESS] Bridge vs router vs AP
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>>> your linux box would be acting as a router - and forwarding packets as
>>> defined by the routing table, with IP forwarding
>>>
>>> at this layer, it doesnt matter that one of the cards is wireless, the
>>> ip stack would just see a packet that needs to get forwarded out an
>> interface -
>>> just like using two "normal" ethernet cards
>>>
>>> Ben
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>>>
>>> Ben Holko
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au
>>> [mailto:owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au]On Behalf Of Robbie Werner
>>> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 2:55 PM
>>> To: melbwireless at wireless.org.au
>>> Subject: Re: Re[2]: [MLB-WIRELESS] Bridge vs router vs AP
>>>
>>>
>>> So what would be required on a Linux box to route packets from a
>>> wireless network into a normal wired LAN?
>>>
>>> That's what I don't really understand:  Getting the wireless network
>>> to
>> talk
>>> to the LAN in a relatively transparent manner.
>>>
>>> -Rob
>>>
>>>
>>> on 30/5/02 2:26 PM, evilbunny at evilbunny at sydneywireless.com wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hello Andrew,
>>> >
>>> > An AP is in fact a bridge, which for all intents and purposes is a
>>> > hub, however non IP traffic is filtered by it...
>>> >
>>> > eg, wireless frame headers aren't sent onto the ethernet segment and
>>> > vice versa, bridges have commonly been used in the past to keep
>>> > macintosh and PC networks apart, ie appletalk and MS filesharing
>>> > aren't sent to both parts of the network so as to keep the clutter
>>> > on a network segment to a minimum...
>>>
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