Wireless router?

[Roger Olofsson]

Corey Chandler skrev:
> 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...
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Hello Corey,

There is no double NAT involved.

/Roger