The firewall plus access point in normal use. It runs Debian,
Shorewall, dhcp3-server, OpenVPN and the hostap driver.
Fitting the antenna, sold as part of a "Soekris kit", proved to be
challenging. With a borrowed drill and various other tools, I
eventually drilled holes that are not too deranged to make the antenna
fit.
The wireless card is an Intersil Prism 802.11b. lspci reports it as a
"Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset
(rev 01)". The card sits in a Mini PCI slot on the Soekris
motherboard. The cable from the antenna fits into a socket on the
card, with a little curling because it's quite long for the case.
Another view. The computer's "hard disk" is a compact flash card,
visible at top right.
After commissioning. The pieces in the foreground from left to right:
the antenna, a wooden implement to operate the reset switch, the
cables for DMZ, LAN and Internet, the serial cable and power. Wireless
clients talk to an OpenVPN server on the Soekris. The vpn's tap0
interface is bridged to eth1, so my wireless laptop is a regular part
of the LAN. I made full use of the valuable guidance
here to get my
configuration working.
