[Wolves] wifi

Stuart Langridge sil at kryogenix.org
Wed Sep 21 09:52:40 BST 2005


> It is my understanding that a standard wifi card is nothing but a
> transceiver is that correct?  If that is the case then, does the
> wireless router just do the general here is a network address thing
> that smoothwall does as a router for a wired network.  If so couldn't
> you theoretically just plug a pci wireless card into a smoothwall box
> and have a wireless router?  Might sound silly but I could find
> anywhere that covered it as a possibility.

Can't see any reason why that wouldn't work, although your smoothwall
box wants to be the machine that gives out IP addresses rather than
the one that receives them from a different server.

Aq.



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