Mark
Thu Aug 21 06:33:35 CDT 2003
An access point is preferable to a router. A router has
such features as NAT which you don't need as your firewall
is further down the line. Make sure you use at least 128
bit WEP on your access point and wireless clients (also
sometimes referred to as 136 bit).
http://www.winguides.com/security/password.php is a good
password generator to help you create a random phrase you
can make your WEP code out of. A random code made up of
letters and numbers really is best.
http://www.rvs.uni-
hannover.de/people/einhorn/jstools/wepkey.html will
convert your WEP code into hexadecimal, which some
wireless devices prefer to ASCII.
If you have no idea what WEP, Hexadecimal or ASCII is I'd
suggest you hold off implementing your wireless plans for
now until you have done a google search on all the terms
and familiarise yourself. Otherwise you are leaving your
wireless network accessable to anyone within 300 meters of
your access point.
>-----Original Message-----
>What I really want is PC's that don't have access to a
>cable (they have wireless cards), to be able to connect
>to the network as it exists and get an IP address
>assigned from my DHCP server. Can I use a "Wireless
>Access Point" rather than a router?
>
>Thanks
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I've got SBS2000 working pretty smoothly finally. I've
>>got my second nic pointing at a switch and using DHCP,
>>all PC's on the network are finding good IP addresses.
>>My next problem is that I want to add my wireless router
>>to the network. Do I have to configure my router to
>have
>>a fixed IP address and have my second nic card look
>there
>>as my DNS server and then have the switch attached to
>>that?
>>
>>Help!
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Rich
>>
>>.
>>
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