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Build a Wireless ISP on Linux
JuiceMan wrote to mention an article that goes into the the specifics of setting up a Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) using Linux and a few easy scripts. From the article: "Wireless clients will have questions, and the Linux-based management tools I'll discuss will help you answer them. Here are some quick examples of how you can answer typical user questions - Question: 'Is the Internet down today? Why can't my browser find www.flakyhost.com?' Solution: First, check your wireless network with the scanap script; it will tell you about the wireless signal quality of all associated clients, including the one that's giving you problems. Then, check IP connectivity with the pingall script; it will tell you about the latency to your ISP's gateway, the DNS, and all your clients, including the problematic one. If these two scripts establish that your network is OK, try www.flakyhost.com."
I still can't reach www.flakyhost.com!
Especially when the upstream runs the cheapskate script to locate the problem.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
you have to type commands?? maybe you shouldn't be a network admin. I mean if you can't write network utitllity programs at the ethernet frame level using raw machine code and custom elf headers,typed in binary on your custom two key keyboard then you really don't know enough about networks to administer one.
typed in binary on your custom two key keyboard
Bah, two key keyboards are for amateurs. I use a one key keyboard with synchronous communications at 16Mhz.
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