RE: More Wireless Questions

["Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

Nik,


The "good" answer, assuming you have a spare box, is to replace
the
Win2k ICS stuff with a Linux machine.
I was formerly running ICS, and it gave me no end of grief. Having
bitten the bullet, and gone for a _very_ simple IPCHAINS (firewall) on
SuSE, it's been chugging along fine. The firewall / connection sharing
machine is running on a P-90 with 128 Mb RAM.

To be fair, this is ISDN rather than ADSL, but the key difference is
that the ISDN card is a PCI one, wheras ADSL would requuire USB.

Personally, I like APs, but a lot of people are just using cards in
servers instead!

Mark Harrison
Head of Systems, eKingfisher



-----Original Message-----
From: Nikola Kasic [mailto:nikola@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 6 February 2002 14:08
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] More Wireless Questions


For us that already have server with ADSL and ICS running on server in
node0, how do we integrate wireless stuff into existing network?
Do we just plug AP into existing hub/switch.
Or if we want to make it cheaper, can we buy 2 wireless cards, stick one
into server with ICS and other into tablet and do "something" on
server
so I can access internet and LAN from Fujitsu tablet?
Nik

-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Laurence [mailto:andylaurence@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 06 February 2002 13:24
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] More Wireless Questions


> Trying to get my head around these wireless pcmia's..  If I dont want
> an access point, can I:
>
> Pop a w-lan card in a laptop connected to my lan,
> Pop a w-lan card in the fujitsu/epod/ipaq and get the two to
> communicate as is?  And with bridging or ics in the laptop could I
> get the pad device to get ip connectivity through it?

Yes.  I've done the same myself.

> If I was to add another device (another w-lan card) would that still
> be compatible with the above setup - or is that where the ap comes in.

The cards when used without an AP run in 'ad-hoc' mode, but when used
with
an AP run in 'infrastructure' mode.  The latter is slightly better
(faster),
but both work reliably when properly setup.

> (in my mind I have the metaphor of two wired lan cards, these can be
> crosswired to connect 2 machines, once you add a 3rd machine you need
> a hub - not sure if w-lans work the same way)

I like to think of a hub splicing wires together so all ends
communicate.
With wireless, there are no wires, so splicing is not required.

Andy
--
PC-Based Multimedia System
http://www.andylaurence.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/pcbmms
<http://www.andylaurence.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/pcbmms>


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