On Saturday 18 December 2004 04:27, Olle Eriksson wrote: > On Saturday 18 December 2004 00.01, Nate Duehr wrote: > > Joey Hess wrote: > > >Nate Duehr wrote: > > >>It's pretty much a roll-your-own kind of thing. Haven't seen any > > >>Debian-specific packages for creating an AP or making it "easy" > > >> yet, really. Of course, I'm not looking either... AP's are so > > >> cheap it's not worth the effort unless the application is very > > >> specialized. The PCI-based 802.11b Prism chipset cards cost > > >> roughly twice what a discounted real AP would cost from an > > >> online vendor. > > > > > >The nice thing about my linux based AP is that, unlike every > > > proprietary AP I've used, it doesn't randomly lose settings, > > > crash, require some crummy web interface, contain stupid backdoor > > > security problems, etc. My AP also mails me when it sees new > > > clients, has powerful packet filtering and andwidth throttling > > > capailities, and can be upgraded with apt-get. > > > > Hmm, I wonder if you've been using the combined AP/Router things. > > My three standard AP's (no routing capabilities and NO intelligence > > on-board - Linksys WAP-11's) have worked fine for years... I have a > > version 1, 1.2, and 2. Agreed that the AP/Router things are a > > giant pain. The only one I'd consider is the new Linksys one that > > runs Linux under the hood and lots of people have alternate flash > > images for. (That one looks fun.) > > What exactly is the problem with the wireless routers? I was just > about to buy one and would like to know more about you experiences. > Loose settings, crash? That doesn't sound good. I was hoping to make > it easier for myself by having all that stuff separated from my linux > machine. Should I not?
My experience it this: Bought an Zyxel ZyAIR B-2000v2 last year around this time. It was awful (maybe I was just unlucky and got a bad unit. dunno). It would crash in no time when I tried forcing the external NIC to run at a particular speed and duplex (the ZyAIR would not auto-negotiate with the cable modem I had at that time). Also, it would lose its configuration over and over again and return to default/factory values. Returned it to the shop after 2 days doing nothing but trying to get it behave properly. Since then I have been using a small Linux machine as wireless AP, and this just makes it so much easier to really be in control of your AP. -- Frederik Dannemare | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=Frederik+Dannemare http://frederik.dannemare.net | http://www.linuxworlddomination.dk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
