Guest Bearzerker40 Posted January 3, 2003 Report Share Posted January 3, 2003 :?: Hi all this is a cry from the wilderness... literally... it seems that more and more remote areas throughout the world are getting broadband now Via wireless networks or WISP's... We here up in Tumbler Ridge BC just got our Orinoco 802.11b equipment installed and it works great, finally we have broadband internet access, but the problem is security... I was using the mandrake single network firewall for a long time and it was great, really liked the squid and other features, just tried the Multi network firewall and it was even better... we've tried to utilize the wireless into our mandrake system but there has been nothing but trouble trying to get the orinoco drivers to work with the SNF & MNF and even the full version Mandrake 9.0 I like the idea of using my old 200Mhz system as a firewall/gateway/router as it's a reaaly good concept, but we need the mandrake security firewall to address this security issue... so... this is an SOS to all out there... HELP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest flare Posted January 8, 2003 Report Share Posted January 8, 2003 I haven't got an Orinoco based wireless card but I do have a CISCO wireless PC card. I have got it to work under Mandrake, but it si mainly a manual process. As MCC wizard makes a mess of configuring the files. What problems do you actually get ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest smsirag Posted February 11, 2003 Report Share Posted February 11, 2003 I'm not very familiar with the software firewall products, but I have an 802.11b home network, protected by a D-link hardware NAT firewall that is very effective, simply because all my computers have private IP addresses. (My wireless ISP access is microwave) They cost about $75, but I think it's worth it for easy security. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted February 12, 2003 Report Share Posted February 12, 2003 I have a linksys wireless bridge that bridges the connection seamlessly. The linksys is on a private network 192.168.218.96 ... which I can't see. My firewall has my public IP 202.27.218.96 This way I didn't have to fight with drivers and crap like that. The Linux boxes just use normal old ethernet, that plugs into my bridge. It works Great!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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