Wireless router?

[Corey Chandler]

Roger Olofsson wrote:
>
>
> Corey Chandler skrev:
>> Nerius Landys wrote:
>>> Thank you all for your suggestions.  This will be a project for me
>>> over the holidays.  I decided to go the standalone wireless router
>>> approach.  
>> Good man!
>>> I will need to figure out how to configure my standalone
>>> wireless router to "pass everything through" to the internal LAN that
>>> I already have.  
>> It's called "Bridge mode" on most APs-- it does exactly what you 
>> describe.  Just make sure things like "DHCP server" are turned off or 
>> you'll see some... odd breakages.
>>> Also I don't know too much about security, like how
>>> to prevent eavesdroppers from connecting to my internal network.  One
>>> of you mentioned access lists, and I assume that means I tell the
>>> wireless router which MAC addresses it accepts, and nothing else.  
>> Ugh.  MAC addresses are trivial to spoof-- I usually don't bother 
>> with using them for security, although I do use 'em to ensure that 
>> particular machines always inherit particular addresses.
>>
>>> Is there any other way to provide security?  Like a password-protected
>>> network?  What are the buzzwords for these security schemes?  Which
>>> security scheme do you recommend for preventing random people within
>>> proximity from connecting to my internal netowrk?
>>>   
>>
>> Absolutely.  Google for WPA or WPA2; WEP has been broken and is 
>> trivial to bruteforce, so I'd not bother with that.
>>
>> Once you get the unit in, feel free to email me off list for 
>> configuration questions; it sounds like a fun project!
>>
>> -- CJC
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>
> Hello Corey,
>
> I don't use 'bridge mode'. I set a normal LAN ip for the wifi router - 
> as well as ips to the FreeBSD gateway and dns. This is for the LAN 
> part of the router - then another internal LAN ip for the wifi part.
>
> To examplify.
>
> Wifi router LAN part - ip 192.168.0.20, gateway 192.168.0.1, dns 
> 192.168.0.10 and 192.168.0.11.
>
> Wifi wifi part - network 10.0.0.1 - 10.0.0.10.
The problem with doing that is a lot of systems start throwing weird 
errors in a double NAT environment.   I'd probably avoid that step and 
restrict wireless to its own VLAN if I were to go that route...