Setting up wired (1000Mbps) + wireless network

David Cary Hart Fedora at TQMcube.com
Tue Jun 21 13:18:02 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 09:06 -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> Hello
> I am planning to setup a home network. I want the wired LAN to be able to run 
> on 1000Mbps, since gigabit NIC and switches are getting less expensive these 
> days. So my plan is to have

Slightly OT but, before you buy those inexpensive NICs, these are the
chipsets supported in 2.6.12.
Alteon AceNIC/3Com 3C985/NetGear GA620 Gigabit support
      * D-Link DL2000-based Gigabit Ethernet support
      *  Intel(R) PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet support
      *  National Semiconduct DP83820 support
      *  Packet Engines Hamachi GNIC-II support
      *  Packet Engines Yellowfin Gigabit-NIC support (EXPERIMENTAL)
      *  Realtek 8169 gigabit ethernet support 
      *  Marvell Yukon Chipset / SysKonnect SK-98xx Support
      *  VIA Velocity support
      *  Broadcom Tigon3 support 
      *  Broadcom NetXtremeII support
> 1. A computer (M1) connected with the Cable modem that has (at least) 2 NIC, 
> one for the cable modem, the second one to connect to the switch.
> 2. M1 will act as firewall and router. This is because 1000Mbps capable 
> routers are still too expensive for me. 
> 3. Other (wired) computers will connect to the switch.
> 
> Now my question is this. I want to add wireless capability to the network. So 
> I searched for wireless access point (WAP) to connect it to the switch. Well, 
> in newegg.com, WAPs are more expensive then combo Wired + Wireless router. Go 
> figure ! Plus a lot of the combo router has better encryption (ie. a lot of 
> the WAPs that I looked at don't have WPA).
> 
> So I am thinking of just getting the combo router. Will that be a problem if I 
> connect it to the switch then (since it by itself is a router) ? Will it 
> require more setup in the computer M1 that acts as a router ? I have 
> experience setting computer with two NICs and a switch to build a LAN using 
> IPTables (actually using shorewall as front end), but basically that's all.
> 
> Thank you for any help or pointer.
> 
> RDB
> 
> -- 
> Reuben D. Budiardja
> Dept. Physics and Astronomy
> University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
> 
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