[KLUG Members] question about Linux-based firewall/router/AP appliance

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> How difficult would it be to create a Linux-based firewall, that also 
> is a wireless access point?

I've done this; and old HP Vectra machine with a PCI/PCMCIA bridge card
with a Orinoco silver plugged into it.  But this was to connect a
'remote' network to a central network with an access point.
Theoretically you can make an ad-hoc network where you don't need a
traditional access point - but I never got that to work,  once the cards
were switched out of managed-mode (use-AP mode) I never got them to find
each other or anything else.

> I'd like to do this with a firewall distro, if possible. I'm kinda 
> partial to IPCop, in particular.

If it supports the hardware required I don't see why not;  but as an
aside I think ipcop is a bad firewall solution as it depends on a
breachable high-failure-point hard drive.   

> My idea is to setup 3 interfaces: Red, Green and have a wireless NIC 
> setup as Blue. This would eliminate the need to maintain another piece 
> of hardware.
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