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May and June Meeting Topics
Posted by Steve, Last updated Friday, April 26, 2002, 1:08 PM
Our May 28 and June 25 meetings will have one presentation stretched over two meetings. First, we'll be installing Linux on a couple of old Alpha boxes. Then we'll be setting up one of these Alphas as an 802.11b wireless access point.
Why the Alphas? These old Alphas, originally known as a Multia or UDB (Universal Desktop Box), depending on what OS they shipped with, have built-in ethernet and two PCMCIA slots. They're really too slow to be used for any "real" work, but they're easily fast enough to do a little routing. Current access points are being shipped with embedded 486-class processors, and these Alphas are somewhere in the high-end 486 to low-end Pentium range. Plus these boxes were collecting dust...
Why Linux? There are a lot of good reasons to use Linux as the OS on a wireless access point: easy support for firewalling, MAC address filtering, IPsec, and IPv6 for starters.
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