ACIRI Wavelan

ACIRI has a Wavelan (IEEE 802.11 DSSS) setup. This currently uses Lucent Turbo Bronze cards, although the newer silver and gold cards are compatible at 2Mb/s. There are two basestations on the 6th floor - coverage is good on the 6th floor, and acceptable on most of the 5th floor. There's limited coverage of the roof.

The ACIRI security policy is that hosts should enforce good security. This means not exchanging anything sensitive unencrypted end-to-end and, as far as possible, not trusting IP addresses for host authentication. The upside of this is that we have no problems with anyone connecting anything to our network. The downside is that if you connect to our network, you should expect your traffic to listened to and not use telnet, ftp (other than anonymous ftp), or mail programs that exchange passwords in-the-clear.

WaveLan configuration

WaveLan is supported on FreeBSD, Linux, and pretty much all Windows variants. The ACIRI network is using DHCP to allocate IP addresses and configure nameservers and default routes.

FreeBSD 3.x

Build a kernel that includes the "wi" interface.
The control program for Wavelan is "wicontrol".
```
wicontrol -i wi0
```
will typically give you information about the state of the wavelan setup.
more information to be added here...

Windows

The contents of the WaveLan driver floppy for the Bronze cards is here.

The main wavelan site should have drivers for the newer cards.

Send comments and suggestions about this page to Mark Handley mjh@aciri.org