So I guess there are two configurations.<br>
<br>
One, non-wireless, the PC has two network cards and acts as a
router/firewall/gateway. One network card points to the inside,
and all users on the inside will have to signin to wifidog. The
other network card points to the internet, or intranet.<br>
<br>
Two, wireless, the PC has a network card and a wireless card, and acts
as a router/firewall/gateway. The wireless card MUST be one that
will act as an Access Point. Not all PC wireless cards will do
that. Most will, but it's best to check. The wireless
network is on the inside, the network card points to the outside
(internet/intranet).<br>
<br>
-rob<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/6/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Proulx François</b> <<a href="mailto:fproulx@edito.qc.ca">fproulx@edito.qc.ca</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
In fact, you could have a seperate access point, as long as this<br>access point is connected to the computer using Wifidog, then you<br>would tell Wifidog to listen on the network card where the access<br>point is linked to. Wifidog will act as a gateway (firewall
<br>gatekeeper) on any linux network interface ... so you could have a<br>whole network behind wifidog, as long as the computers needing<br>internet access are on the same subnet, since wifidog will bounce<br>back the request ...
<br><br><br>On 6-Dec-2005, at 8:57 , Rowson Christopher wrote:<br><br>> Thanks for the quick reply François,<br>><br>> Unfortunately we are going to have to install wifidog onto a linux<br>> PC rather<br>> than onto an access point. The reasoning behind this is that our
<br>> datacomms<br>> department only use specific access points because of management<br>> reasons,<br>> and the Cisco access point they use is not compatible with OpenWRT.<br>><br>> I actually found a bit of documentation over at
<br>> <a href="http://bcwireless.net/moin.cgi/WifiDog">http://bcwireless.net/moin.cgi/WifiDog</a> which seems to help out<br>> quite a bit<br>> and carries a good how to for building the linux box to run as a<br>
> gateway.<br>> It seems however that the radio needs to be integrated into the PC<br>> rather<br>> than using an access point - Or am I reading this wrong?<br>><br>> Cheers<br>><br>> Chris<br>>
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