Linux wireless router (doable?)

[Ronald Wechter]

Well, Im not telling you to get a WRT54G but I wanted to mess with linux and
routing but did not want to sacrafice my main linux box.  This may not
pertain to you so treat this more as useful(less) information :)

So...in the Linux Journal I saw an ad for Routerboard.com -- Very small form
factor cards that run either their own Router OS or Debian Linux - Great
thing is that there are no moving parts, run linux, and can use PoE etc.  To
solve the wireless devices you can get a Cisco MiniPCI card for arou 80-100
(cheapest I found).  The RouterBoard 500 is about $160 (With 2 MiniPCI card
slots) thus making it a $300 solution.

All my old PCs either didnt have RAM or the BIOS couldnt accept over a 1gb
HD etc.  Either way I was going to spend ~$200 on a system that is old and
noisy (old fans) vs. the router board has no moving parts and is as powerful
- Downfall = Only32mb ram and 64MB nand storage.

Ron

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Meyer [mailto:meyer_rm at yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 2:48 PM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: Linux wireless router (doable?)


OK, this one should be simple but searching the net gives me pages with tons
of
information and no real answer.

Can I make a linux box into a wireless router?  The situation is this:  I
know
someone with a linux box that just got a Powerlink connection.  He wants to
stuff a wireless card in the linux box and use IPTABLES to make the linux
box
into a firewall for wireless.  The real question is whether or not a
wireless
card in a linux box can be made to look like a wireless hub.  I haven't
worked
that much with wireless to know what can be done.  If I can get the card to
be
the other end of the connection, then getting DHCP, IPTABLES and other
things
running should be a snap.

Please don't tell me how cheap a WRT54G is.  I know already but the person
that
wants to do this doesn't want an external router.

Any ideas?

Cheers!

Bob

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