[wplug-board] [wplug-internet] Installfest network

[Brian A. Seklecki]

I'm available every evening this week.  It just takes an hour to get out
there with traffic.

WRT to NAT and authenticated internet connectivity; I suspect that any NAT
client can authenticate on behalf of a single MAC address.  We shall see.

~BAS

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, DK wrote:

> I have a Linksys WRT54G running DD-WRT which can be configured as an
> wireless client, then route the connection to the wired LAN.  Of
> course, it can use NAT and DHCP to provide a private network for
> installfest users.
>
> I'd be happy to meet on Sunday for testing.
>
> Dave
>
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Vance Kochenderfer <vkochend at nyx.net> wrote:
> > Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> >> On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Vance Kochenderfer wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I have been playing around with my laptop to configure it to serve
> >> > as a router for a wired LAN with a wireless WAN uplink.
> >>
> >> I have a authorization to borrow a Cisco Catalyst 2948G-L3 48x Gig and a
> >> Dell PowerEdge 750 with 2x 500 gig SATA300.
> >>
> >> The PowerEdge is just configured to serve DHCP leases with special
> >> attributes for PXE booting systems into the Fedora 10 installer.  I can
> >> add NAT and a PCI wireless card
> >>
> >> I can still meet you out there to test out any kinks.  Likely the WIFI
> >> system is setup to require interactive login with your library card on to
> >> obtain a DHCP lease in the proper VLAN.
> >
> > Sounds good, but I wonder how this would work with logging into
> > the library's portal system
> > <http://www.carnegielibrary.org/usingthelibrary/technology/wireless/PatronWirelessAuthentication.pdf>
> > <http://www.carnegielibrary.org/usingthelibrary/technology/wireless/>.
> >
> > My thought was that I could open up a browser on my laptop and
> > authenticate there, then users of the wired network would not have
> > to authenticate individually.
> >
> > I presume that with the PowerEdge set up to do NAT, the first
> > person on would have to authenticate to the library system, then
> > all subsequent traffic would be covered by that.  After all, all
> > the traffic is going to look like it's coming from the PowerEdge,
> > right?  Or am I missing something?
> >
> > No matter what the solution is, I'd like to try testing it
> > beforehand given the networking problems we've experienced at the
> > last two installfests.
> >
> > Vance Kochenderfer        |  "Get me out of these ropes and into a
> > vkochend at nyx.net          |   good belt of Scotch"    -Nick Danger
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