Re: Wireless LAN setup

[Stein Boerge Sylvarnes <Stein.Sylvarnes@student.uib.no>]

On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Clarence Chan wrote:

> Besides, lucent. Is there any choice ? 
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> Clarence
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> On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Daniel MD wrote:
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> > WARNING: if you are using openBSD for it's security features, you probably 
> > don't wanna run a wireless network, i know that lucent says its high 
> > security, still wend we talk wireless there is allot to explore, for 
> > instance if you use wireless keyboards, finding your passwords is as easy 
> > as getting a wireless receiver (the same kind as the Keyboard) put in a 
> > laptop, and opening a text editor.
> > 
> > Lucent is a reputed corporation, i have nothing bad to say abut them, they 
> > have some of the best researchers and labs in the world, so they know what 
> > they do very well.
> > Contact them to ask abut setting up a wireless openBSD LAN server, i think 
> > you will find that setting up the windows OS clients will be easy, there is 
> > allot of support, so any difficulties will easily be overcome, you may want 
> > to check out some solutions that are more unix-centric than win-centric.
> > 
> > If you want to run a Orinoco with all safety tools it comes with, your 
> > network will have to have a windows OS server.
> > 
> > Best of luck tell us what you decided, and difficulties you have.
> > 
> > At 19:43 16-11-2000 +0800, you wrote:
> > >Hello,
> > >
> > >We are planning to setup a wireless LAN under OpenBSD (i386) server and
> > >some other win98 machines.  However, I don't how to start it.  Can anyone
> > >show me the direction ?  Our local computer component supplier sugests
> > >Lucent Orinoco products.  Any idea ?  Thanks
> > >
What exsactly are you looking for? Hardware solutions? Software solutions?
or both?
How large area are you expecting to cover? Building/city area/suburb area?

I am sitting on a wlan covering large parts of Bergen, Norway. This is
a network shared between the University, college and private schools in
Bergen. The equipment is mainly delvered by Breezecom, and is using the
802.11 FHSS standard. Currently there is wide range (15,4dBi) antennas 
outdoors on 11 different locations and indoors (6dBi) in one study.
Authentication is provided through a vpn-tunell.
If what you are looking for is something simmilar to this, don't
hesitate contacting me, and I will answer any questions as well as I
can, or forward you to our local wlan-guru.

regards
Stein B. Sylvarnes

> > >Clarence
> > 
> > Best Regard's and have a nice day...
> > Daniel MD [Im-Thinking@clix.pt]
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