[plug] Mini ITX Access Point?

[Adrian Woodley]

At work we're starting to play around with Yawarra gear, for both 
routers and APs.
If you can it to fit on a CF (2-4G?) you should be laughing.

http://www.yawarra.com.au/

Adrian

Tim wrote:
> I'm currently working on a software/distro project of creating a
> wireless hotspot system, all integrated (so MySQL, FreeRadius,
> CoovaChilli, Apache, Squid, Dansguardian and custom software all in
> the same system). It currently runs on any standard box, that has 2
> NIC's (due to how coovachilli works it requires separate NIC's,
> besides you need to separate the hotspot side from the internet side).
>
> I'm thinking I might be able to extend the "package" by packaging it
> on small compact hardware, with minimal requirements and mostly solid
> state. I've had a brief look at Mini ITX boards (fanless) that have
> dual NIC. I was wondering if people had other suggestions of small
> compact systems that would also work.
> In particular, I'm looking for a system that has essentially a built
> in access point. I'm not sure how well using a wireless NIC in AP mode
> would work with coovachilli, as I've not had a chance to try it yet.
> But was thinking if I could get that to work, I could be making a self
> contained AP/Hotspot system (similar to how people use dd-wrt or
> linksys routers, but slightly heaver on the software side).
>
> Any suggestions? Or is it easier keeping the wireless/networking
> hardware separate from the accounting/filtering/gateway hardware??
>
> Thanks
>
> Tim
> p.s. If you didn't realise, it all runs Linux. I'm also preparing to
> release code for parts of it, once I get it into a form I'm
> comfortable releasing (clean). http://grase.sf.net/
>
>