[Wolves] wifi

[Simon Morris]

On 21/09/05, David Morley <davmor2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

In principle it's fine as long as Smoothwall has wireless networking
utilities, kernel modules etc.

I would make sure that the interface is either assigned as a RED
(External) or ORANGE (DMZ) interface. If you assign it as a internal
interface you won't be able to implement much packet filtering between
your wireless and wired network.

Thanks

~sm