I just sold mines to Donny, and it was the most emotional parting of any
tech item I had. This sale easily brought me more grief than selling my
palm pilot or my sound blaster audigy. Nuff with the mushy stuff.
Just for reference I had both the WRT54G & the WPC54G & they all worked
fine with Windows XP, Longhorn, Solaris(x86), FreeBSD 4.8
First things first, upgrade the firmware on the boxes.(and on the
linksys you get a neat lil cisco icon now that linksys is 0|/n3d by Cisco)
Secondly change your SSID to something non descript and better yet
disable the broadcast of your SSID
(Actually thinking of it, this could be generalised advice for any
platform, cuase I did the exact things with some Aruba's)
On the linksys you have many choices to make, you have to determine if
your box is going to function as a router, gateway or simply a wireless
bridge. My simplest of configurations included simply configuring the
box as a bridge, stick a couple of WinXP boxes on the switched ethernet
ports (not the Internet port) and have a couple laptops connect to the
internet via ICS as per a configured XP box. Wonderful, the XP boxes
gave out IPs auto dialled everything, config time: 5mins + time to dial
onto the internet via my stupid modem.
Complex solution........briefly......ADSL line coming -> several boxes
on a protected lan (Dynamic NAT) with my own internal DNS server.
Additionally a webserver accesible from the outside world (split
DNS+Port Address Translation). FreeBSD 4.8 on a wireless laptop and
several windows clients connecting out simultaneously. Tried for a
webserver on the laptop too, worked fine, but in the end i thought it
was foolish and should be filed under things you should do to just see
if it works......(actually didn't see any reason why not)....
Hummmm wonder if Donny is willing to sell me back my stuff......
About running Linux on the Linksys, you should see here:
http://www.batbox.org/wrt54g-linux.htmland please note the following sentence:
Note that there is no login prompt, you telnet directly in as root. Be
careful. This is for development use and is not meant to be deployed on
the open Internet.
Any other information you need please feel to contact me..............if
you wish
sureshd@tstt.net.tt wrote:
> I have come across some Linksys Wireless equipment at my disposal and
> I'd like to know as much as I can about patching the security holes in
> these devices, as well as any other neat things that can be done with
> the equipment . I've heard that they can be uploaded with a flavour
> and made into a web server? *ears perked and interest piqued*
>
> I humbly await word from the master/s of this particular skill.
>
>
> BTW I've got a WAP54G Wireless Access Point and a WRT54G wireless
> broadband router, both from Linksys.
>
> -Suresh
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