[Soekris] Access point software?
Erik M. Cummings
erik at usatogether.org
Fri Jul 4 05:04:40 UTC 2008
Jason - will those run the dd-wrt or open-wrt software?
Erik
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On 03 Jul,08, at 9:35 PM, Jason Antman <jason at jasonantman.com> wrote:
> 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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