[Soekris] Access point software?

Jason Antman jason at jasonantman.com
Fri Jul 4 04:35:06 UTC 2008


Hi,

I just came into a bunch (40+) of net4526-30's. I have a few 4501's 
running as routers, and decided that I'd like to setup 1 or 2 of the 
4526's as wireless access points. They each have Engenius/Prism 802.11b 
cards in them.

I looked into m0n0wall, which I have running on one of my 4526's, but it 
will only do wireless as a third interface, and has the web GUI 
(required to setup wireless) bound to the LAN interface... so it's 
pretty much useless unless I can manually edit the config files to set 
an SSID, and then access the config over wireless.

I'm really looking for something pre-made, preferably with a web gui 
(but SSH is fine too). It's just going to be used as an AP on a LAN, so 
advanced features aren't needed, but I would like some sort of 
encryption (WEP is fine), as well as (the less easy-to-find) captive 
portal with RADIUS or LDAP or something like that, possibly MAC 
filtering, DHCP relay, etc.

Any suggestions? I've planned a few projects with these, but would like 
to get the AP up and running with a minimum of fuss (i.e. making a new 
AP-centric m0n0wall image isn't what I was hoping for).

Thanks for any advice,
Jason


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