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On 10.11.2011 16:48, James wrote: |
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> Jens Reinemuth<jens<at> reinemuth.info> writes: |
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>> i currently live in an appartment that has a very lousy |
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>> wlan-access-point for the people. |
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Hi... |
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all you mentioned is really true... i don't care really much for the |
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security as i don't provide the AP, i just want to connect to it ;-) |
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i just want to make the signal - which is ok at the kitchen window - a |
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little bit stronger, so my pc (about 3m away) can connect to it. |
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I found some howtos about this issue (mainly debian) in which it ist |
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described to "split" your interface in 2 virtual interfaces |
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(wlan0:repeater and wlan0:ap)... You connect with wlan0:repeater to the |
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AP of the WLAN and provide another access point via wlan0:ap... |
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After this, you have to forward your traffic in both directions. |
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Just wanted to know if this is going to work on a gentoo-box with |
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ath5k... And how!? Simple iptables, or do i have to work out some |
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bridging stuff? |
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If i had to provide the main-access-point, i think i would have chosen |
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"freifunk" or something like that, as the appartment is in the plain |
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country, no houses around, even if some hackers try to connect, you |
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would see every car, every person that is in the radius of 2km around |
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the house ;-) And even if someone really manages to connect - so what!? |
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There are as many court judgments which say you are responsible for ALL |
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traffic via your wifi as the ones saying you are not! I have a "legal |
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expenses insurance"... Aren't we all hackers? |
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As long as german politicians think (and insist that) it's legal to |
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install trojans on computers, i think it's legal to share my bandwith! |
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regards, |
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Jens |
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