[buug] Regarding wireless access points

[Aaron T Porter]

On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 02:32:29PM -0700, Claude Rubinson wrote:
> My cohort all share a single office (there are ten of us but it's a
> big office -- used to be a classroom -- so it's not bad) with a single
> ethernet jack.  Can I simply plug a wireless hub into the ethernet
> jack and bring wireless access to the entire office (and, hopefully,
> the department)?  Or is it more complicated than that?
> 
> And, assuming that I can simply connect a wireless hub to the ethernet
> jack, I'm thinking that I don't need to worry about security since the
> campus network will still be authenticating the individual clients by
> MAC address.  That is, I wouldn't be opening any security holes in the
> campus network.  Correct?  Or no?

	Assuming the university maintains ethernet jacks in open public
spaces (most do) and assuming you configure your wirless base station as a
bridge not a router, you should be mostly correct.