[CS-FSLUG] Linksys WRT54GL with openwrt

[Timothy Butler]

Well, I have not experimented with OpenWRT, but I can offer how we  
have it set up with the standard firmware at my church, which has the  
largest deployment I've installed. For the moment, it is a fairly  
basic. We have two connected to each other in the office -- one takes  
the DSL in directly and has its firewall turned off. It is used solely  
as a wired router that feeds static IP systems connected directly to  
the internet. A second router, with wireless, NAT, firewall, etc.,  
turned on, feeds the wired and wireless computers inside the church  
office (it is attached to a 16-port switch to do the job).

 From there, we have four other units installed at strategic locations  
around the building that are connected back to the 16 port switch via  
Cat 6 cable (we're ready for the switch to Gig-E and Wireless N  
eventually). These serve only as access points, with DHCP, NAT,  
firewall, etc., all disabled. Critically, all of these are connected  
to the main switch via one of their four standard ports and not the  
WAN port, which will not allow normal communication in such a  
configuration.

The eventual plan is to place a RADIUS server back in the offer to do  
authentication. I'm debating about whether to hack something together  
on Linux (since no major distro seems to have a supported RADIUS and  
Directory Service solution) or finding the money to deploy Mac OS X  
10.5 Leopard, which comes with RADIUS integrated with its Open  
Directory server.

	-Tim

On Jun 23, 2008, at 8:39 AM, Frank Bax wrote:

> Last week we just received 30 of the WRT54G with plans to install
> openwrt on them all.  Last month we deployed only one of these as a  
> test
> - so far so good.  We have not yet enabled wireless.  Would you care  
> to
> share your ideas on how wireless should be configured (perhaps an  
> example)?
>
> I'm wondering about other capabilities of openwrt?
>
> Simple case would be to not broadcast that wireless device exists; and
> only be usable by known mac addresses.  I guessing I could maintain a
> master list and push this to all my devices; so that laptops will  
> "just
> work" in any location.
>
> Fancier setup might allow access to unknown mac addresses on different
> subnet and restricted (slow) bandwidth to internet.
>
> Most devices will have dynamic ip; is there some (easy) way that I can
> maintain a list of current ip addresses in use.  I do have at least  
> one
> server with static ip address where I could keep the master list.
> dyndns has a limit of 5 sites per account.
>
>
>
> Timothy Butler wrote:
>> I'd go with one of the basic modems AT&T offers (e.g. a Motorola or
>> Speedstream) and plug it into a Linksys WRT54G 802.11b/g router.  
>> That's
>> my standard configuration for folks, and it works quite well. I'm not
>> fond of the 2Wire boxes.
>>
>> -Tim
>>
>>
>> On Jun 22, 2008, at 11:01 PM, Ed Hurst wrote:
>>
>>> Assume you are stuck with AT&T DSL as your only broadband choice.  
>>> Can
>>> anyone recommend a better gateway than those 2Wire boxes AT&T sells?
>>> Gotta have wifi, too.
>
>
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