wireless/broadband router recommendations?

[James Knott]

Charly Baker wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>I am interested in one of the 802.11g access points. I have noticed that
>>access points are often more expensive than routers and they never seem to
>>go on sale. Can the routers be used as access points? In other words, is it
>>possible to disable the routing, dhcp, and firewall capabilities of the
>>routers, such as those from Linksys, D-Link, and SMC and use them strictly
>>as access points?
>>
>>I use an old PC running Linux for firewalling, routing, and dchp and have
>>no  desire to change that. The plan is to add a third NIC to the Linux box,
>>run IPsec on it so that all wireless communications will be across IPsec
>>tunnels.
>>
> 
>  You could also just put a wireless card in your gateway and have it function 
> as an access point.  See:
> 
> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-wap.html?ca=dgr-lnxw03AccessPoint
> and 
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2001/03/06/recipe.html

With the price of those wireless firewall/router boxes these days, a 
wireless card would be more expensive..



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