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Re: [opensuse] OpenSuSE Box into a WIFI router
- From: James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 15:58:14 -0500
- Message-id: <45A15EE6.7010100@xxxxxxxxxx>
Jay Smith wrote:
>
> Hello,
> So once, I configured a wired router using SuSE. It was a pretty easy take to
> me just a little tedious. I was wondering, anyone out there ever try to make a
> Wireless router using an opensuse box. I know I can probably just connect an
> access point to my current opensuse router but I once had someone tell me that if
> you have a wifi card in the system, you can make a wireless router out of a Linux
> system. Any ideas? Thanks.
>
You could do that. As far as the router function goes, there's no
difference between ethernet & wifi. My firewall is based on SUSE 10 and
has 3 ethernet ports. The 3rd one is for connecting to my WiFi access
point. There is no reason why I couldn't have used a WiFi NIC instead.
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>
> Hello,
> So once, I configured a wired router using SuSE. It was a pretty easy take to
> me just a little tedious. I was wondering, anyone out there ever try to make a
> Wireless router using an opensuse box. I know I can probably just connect an
> access point to my current opensuse router but I once had someone tell me that if
> you have a wifi card in the system, you can make a wireless router out of a Linux
> system. Any ideas? Thanks.
>
You could do that. As far as the router function goes, there's no
difference between ethernet & wifi. My firewall is based on SUSE 10 and
has 3 ethernet ports. The 3rd one is for connecting to my WiFi access
point. There is no reason why I couldn't have used a WiFi NIC instead.
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