creating a new hotspot

[Tom Perkins]

The more interesting challenge may be acquiring an ethernet port outside 
thefirewall to connect an access point to. Your local lan people will 
have to do that, I'd bet.  If you need more than one AP your sysadmin 
may won't all those AP connected to a single hub/router (so that he only 
need provide one ethernet port outside the firewall, deps on the local 
lan though). You'd then configure the access point as if connecting to 
DSL or cable modem at a residence (and with everyone using VPN to 
connect to your intranet).

Regards,
Tom

Jim Carter wrote:

>On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Daniel Curry wrote:
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>>Management has OK'd the use of wireless in our office, IF it is outside
>>the firewall (DUH!) and requires authentication.
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>>What I need is a step by step (1...2...3...) guide and the appropriate
>>software to make this into a WAP. I understand that there will probably
>>be kernel rebuilds and such, that is why I am asking for a step by step
>>guide, because I don't do kernels all that well.
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>>What else do I need? The users all have a VPN client on their notebooks
>>for home use, so this is just a logical extension.
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