On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 05:53:35PM +0930, David Purton wrote: > I know, way OT, but I thought I'd pick people's brains on here anyway. > > I'm thinking about adding wireless connectivity to my home LAN. > > At present it looks like this: > > +--------+ > | switch |-- wired private network > +--------+ > | > eth0 > | > +-----------------+ > | debian linux | +------------+ > | server/firewall |-- eth1 --| adsl modem |-- internet > | gateway/router | +------------+ > +-----------------+ > > > What is my best option? > > I was thinking of just putting another ethernet card in my server and > getting a wireless access point to attach to it. Then I could only allow > traffic through to/from the wired network through a VPN (probably using > openVPN, since I have used this before and it's easy enough to > configure). > > What are the disadvantages of doing it this way? > > And what hardware would you recommend to get this setup to play nicely > with linux? > > I guess the other option is getting a wireless router which I could > attach to my switch. > > How does this compare to using just an access point? Is it better? > > Presumably it would be possible to setup the router so that it would > only allow VPN traffic through to my server and block everything else > between the wired and wireless networks - giving equivalent security. > > Again what hardware would you recommend? Most wireless routers seem to > include a wired switch as well - which I don't really need. >
You could just get a wireless card and make the server act as a WAP. That would be cheaper and more configurable. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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