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>    1. Re: Dell Truemobile - how useful?? (Manuel M. T. Chakravarty)
>    2. Wireless Operating System (NOS can run on a 386!!! Full feature NOS
is 801k) (Robert Farrar)
>    3. Just starting (John Morrison)
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> Subject: Re: Dell Truemobile - how useful??
> To: aristotle at ihug.com.au
> Cc: wireless at lists.samba.org
> Reply-To: chak at cse.unsw.edu.au
> Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 16:28:31 +1000
> From: "Manuel M. T. Chakravarty" <chak at cse.unsw.edu.au>
>
> Aristotle <aristotle at ihug.com.au> wrote,
>
> > I am about to get a Dell Inspiron 8200 with an internal wireless LAN
> > card.  What can I do with it?  So far I seem to be seeing bad reports
> > all over regarding range.  Should I just keep the wireless LAN card as
> > some sort of backup or short range blue-tooth kind utility?  I was
> > hoping I could get involved in a community based wireless LAN.
>
> I have a Latitude with TrueMobile.  It's essentially the
> same as an Orinoco Gold card, expect that it is a MiniPCI
> card instead of PCMIA (but it is internally hooked up via
> the PCMIA controller).  I seem to be getting about the same
> range out of it as I do with an Orinoco PCMCIA (ie, just not
> enough for all of my backyard :-/
>
> Manuel
>
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> Message: 2
> From: "Robert Farrar" <robert at secnet.com.au>
> To: <wireless at lists.samba.org>
> Subject: Wireless Operating System (NOS can run on a 386!!! Full feature
NOS is 801k)
> Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 16:43:47 +0930
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> I thought the following may be of interest to most users on both lists, =
> I
> received this info in a email earlier today and will post more details =
> when
> available :-
>
> A Wireless CPE supplier is about to release this new a AP and CPE =
> software
> product that I think is going to impress most people that try it :) =
> First
> and for most THIS IS NOT LINUX!!!! :) they want to make sure everyone =
> know
> this right from the start! The NOS was developed from the ground up with =
> one
> thing in mind, Networking! The Network Operating System (or NOS) turns a
> common PC hardware based devices with at least two supported network
> interfaces into fully manageable multiport network device. Part of the
> package is a Windows based NMS - management software for remote on-line
> monitoring and management. The system is one of the first all-in one
> multipurpose network administering and management suite:
> Top speed and efficiency (NOS can run on a 386!!! Full feature NOS is =
> 801k)
> Continuous network monitoring with selectable alarm levels
> Graphical network traffic trend analysis down to node level
> Uninterrupted network history logging
> Wide scale security filtering
> User management
> Support for variety of wireless and wired Interfaces
>
> NOS (Network Operating System)
> Ad-hoc, Point-to-Point and Point-to-Multipoint, per interface
> Infrastructure mode - client, per interface
> Infrastructure mode - Access Point, per interface
> Bridging:
> transparent bridging
> Level 2, store and forward
> up to 2048 MAC addresses, stored in bridge table
> Storm Broadcast Protection
> Bridge Group Manager - up to 7 logical groups per port (VLAN)
> Packet filtering on MAC level
> Routing:
> Level 3, static routing tables
> up to 64 routing records
> Available for physical and logical interfaces
> Packet filtering on IP level
> Bandwidth Management /IP/Port/MAC access authorization (Firewall):
> 128 Traffic shaping queues
> predefined queue speed limit (from 32 Kbps up to 4096 Kbps)
> custom definable queue speed limit
> queue assignment
> physical port (up to 24 ports in one device)
> IP address (up to 128 user definable records of IP hosts and/or network
> addresses)
> MAC address (up to 2048 MAC addresses)
> Status
> Active - running based on the settings
> Inactive - keeps settings - queue in BYPASS mode
> Discard - settings in Active mode - data will be blocked (discarded) for
> user
> Quality of Service (on the physical port level)
> Three (3) data flow priority queues
> Transmitted packets data prioritization (512 KB buffer, 256 packets =
> entries
> per queue)
> Device Time Synchronization:
> Automatic Synchronization
> Manual
> HW Support combination of (for up to 6 interfaces per device):
> Multiple wireless interfaces:
> Demarc 100mW (Prism 2 compatible)
> Orinoco
> Multiple Ethernet interfaces:
> 3C509: 3COM
> SMC: SMC8x16
> NE2000 (RTL8139)
> Multiple Synchronous interface:
> X.21; V.35 (MOXA)
> Multiple Asynchronous interface:
> UART 16450, 16550 (Com 1 and 2)
> NMS (Network Management System)Software application (Windows 32-bit)
> providing ability to manage the NOS based devices remotely over the =
> TCP/IP
> network. Supports setup and monitoring of the devices with the ability =
> to
> display information for data flow, status of the devices, event logging, =
> and
> more. Setup allows user to set all important hardware and software
> parameters of the device. Shortly We will have a fully functional demo
> downloadable and documentation from our website in the few days. We will =
> be
> sending out another email with the link info when the web pages are =
> setup
> for the public.
>
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> 3COM<BR>SMC:=20
> SMC8x16<BR>NE2000 (RTL8139)<BR>Multiple Synchronous interface:<BR>X.21; =
> V.35=20
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> over the=20
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> ability=20
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> logging,=20
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> functional=20
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> Message: 3
> Reply-To: <jmorrison at ahc.net.au>
> From: "John Morrison" <jmorrison at ahc.net.au>
> To: <wireless at lists.samba.org>
> Subject: Just starting
> Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 20:28:17 +1000
> Organization: All Home Computing
>
> Hi all
> I'm just starting into radio and I'd like some advice from those
> that have been there and done it all. :-)
>
> Anyway what we were looking at was sharing internet access with
> each other (Yeah I know about the grey area in the law) using some good
> cards then sharing the network with other friends in the neighbourhood
> that can access our 2 sites.
>
> So what we've worked out so far........... (Don't laugh if we've got it
> all wrong)
> We've decided to run every thing in ad-hoc mode.
> This is so we can communicate to each other and to the
> client machines.
> Unless I've got it wrong APs can't communicate with each
> other AND with clients. Am I right!
>
> The Equipment we're looking at so far is a DWL-120 (it's a USB adaptor
> that will be used for the client machines).
>
> We were going to us the DWL-520s for the 2 main nodes BUT we've since
> found they don't' work well in Ad-hoc mode. :-(
> The 2 main links will be Linux machines, I've got a few old 486s so they
> should do FINE!!!
>
> So any suggestions or corrections?
> As you can see I don't' know much at all. :-(
>
> A BIG THANKS
> John Morrison
>
>
>
>
>
>
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