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