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Just remembering and poking around, I found these guys that were running wireless Linux routers in October 98.

The Open-WRT project was soliciting ideas at least in 1999.

Someone at HP was working on this in 1996. I don't know how far they got before 1998.

I'm suspecting there were other projects back then making good progress. But I can't tell how applicable these are. The HP project is sure interesting.

Coincidentally we are launching a blog backup service shortly. We'll back up blogs so that users won't have to worry about their content if their service goes down or *gasp* goes out of business!

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-- Greg

The idea of line of sight doesn't need to go over amateur bands. In fact, doing so would be a bad idea for many reasons including transmission speed (9600?!?!?!) and the part 97 rules which don't allow for any kind of commercial activity.

However, there have been many such links done over long distances that used standard 802.11 gear and highly directional antennas. Here in NYC we've done many such links through the nycwireless project. A good source of info would be the Personal Telco site. Other projects to take a look at would be the 310km WiFi link at The Swedish Space Corporation, even though that's probably way over budget ;). See here for a slightly out of date (1998) mini how-to on a Linux wireless router for a 5 mile link. Also just try google for pertinent info. All of this is, of course, a moot point if you don't have line of sight to anything. What about a regular telephone line? Cell Phone?

Good luck with this, post back to let us know what you did and how it worked!
-Derek, KC2JKD

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-- Greg

I wrote a set of perl scripts for implementing baesian filters for procmail. The scripts can be downloaded here

Hope y'all find it useful.

-- Greg

I have two procmail rules which work wonders in stopping spam. the first one is a fairly uninventive but nevertheless effective check of a really great RBL. The second is a bit more inventive. By pulling the 'Recieved' headers from the message and comparing the countries the mail was routed through using 'GeoIP' you can make some assumptions about the route. For example. if the sending machine is in the US, relays the mail through Korea, then the mail comes back to the US such an inefficent route can be safely assumed as intended to take advantage of an open SMTP relay... Enjoy!

procmailrc.antispam.txt

-- Greg

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There's a few to start you off.

glibc already allows exactly this kind of plugins by the means of Name Service Switch (NSS). It is all there and working on a linuxbox near you. Read all about it @ System Databases and Name Service Switch

Linux Router Project supports traffic shaping, although I've yet to set it up. If the breezecom routers dont do it you may be able to build a Linux router that'll traffic shape and do wireless to 2megabit too. see the Linux Wireless Router Howto

This may also be a cheap solution to some of the other replyers who were interested in wireless routers if your into DIY!

-- Greg

There is a movement to implement an LDAP based authentication scheme. Check out the LDAPNS site. LDAP and NDS are VERY similar in fact. Samba has experimental support for LDAP as a backend to its PDC capabilities. So you have UNIX and WIndows authentication centralized in one LDAP tree.

This may be good for those that wants to get Linux into NDS networks, but the community should concentrate on creating a open and free directory service for itself built on open and nonproperity standards. Support Linux Dierctory Project and OpenLDAP: A System Administrator's Vie w of LDAP Linux Directory Services The OpenLDAP Project

The NSS modules have been 'rpm'ed and the system designed around PAM. - although I'm not sure the neccesity of this for basic authentication - It think it's to do with password modification.

There has been a little discussion on the openldap and rage.net lists.
I hope to have a go testing some of this soon....(albiet on a v.small scale!).

There is an RFC specifically on dealing with Password (among many other things) in LDAP. and utils to convert passwd files to LDAP.
- And this is what I do for fun??