Along these lines, I've been putting in neighborhood repeaters supporting 10
residences (we have a very convoluted terrain) or less using a combination
of a Karlnet SOHO license in bridge mode and a 802.11b AP (BG2000). Fairly
cludgy, in that all the bw limiting, authentication has to be done back at
the NOC (using MT), so I've been wondering about a more elegant and scalable
solution. How about a Linux distro (like the AP distro) running on a SBC
with two radios in it. One radio would be a Linux KN client license, and
the other running as a .11b compliant AP. This way, the repeater is on one
piece of hardware, routing, authentication, and bw/packet level control are
all available right at the repeater point. Does anyone think such a
beastie is possible?
Norm
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