Subject: Re: (Revisiting) Using airport- doesn't anyone know?
From: Brice D Ruth (brice@webprojkt.com)
Date: Mon Jun 25 2001 - 14:19:35 MDT
All right - I'm in MacOS w/ Mozilla 0.9.1 checking my mail - no slow
down that I can detect.
-Brice
William K. Gibson wrote:
> on 6/21/01 6:27 PM, Brice D Ruth at brice@webprojkt.com wrote:
>
> OK, here's where I am so far (not that this will really help you,
> its mainly an FYI)
>
> I'm running the LinuxPPC default 2.2.18-4hpmac kernel, with the
> included airport module (by Ben) that creates an airport device
> (airport-0.9.3). I insmod the airport.o module and use the
> iwconfig application provided by wireless-tools
> <_http://www.fasta.fh-dortmund.de/users/andy/wvlan/_ > . I
> believe I did something like so:
>
> */sbin/iwconfig airport essid "webprojkt" rate 5.5M
> *
>
>
>
> I'm curious, why did you set your rate to 5.5 instead of the standard 11?
>
>
> Running */sbin/iwconfig* again showed me that the AirPort card had
> indeed found the base station (yay!). Next up was getting an IP
> address - this ended up being simple enough, I simply ran *
> /sbin/dhcpcd -d airport* and it came back almost immediately with
> a valid address and configured my DNS and all (yay!).
>
>
> I should mention that I am not using DHCP on the base station. I'm
> connected to a cable modem via DHCP, and using DHCP from the base
> station does not work. I have made a lan on 10.0.1.x instead with the
> Base station acting as a router over ethernet and air. Oh, I'm also
> using encryption so I have to give the airport module the encryption
> number- or whatever its called that I cannot remember right this moment.
>
>
> *netdev: tap0
>
> *Then I pretty much to the letter followed the instructions for
> setting up a tapdevice found here:
>
> _http://www.turbolinux.com/~brad/mol/#net
> _
>
> I have a few issues with this web page. One is here
>
> > # echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/tap0/proxy_arp
> > # /sbin/arp -s 192.168.0.2 FE:FD:00:00:00:00 pub
>
> He says to make an arp entry manually- but simply using tap0 will
> automatically produce an entry in the arp table- so I don't think that
> is nessesary.
>
> I simply used 192.168.1.1 as my tap0 device address and changed
> everything appropriately for that. I started up MOL and it booted
> my MacOS 9.1 system just fine - went into my TCP/IP settings and
> continued to follow the instructions listed above. I then loaded
> up Mozilla (0.9.1 if you must know :)) and checked out
> slashdot.org - according to Mozilla, the page finished loading
> after 35.545 seconds. Checking out interactive8.webprojkt.com (a
> site that I own, so I know that the server won't be bogged down or
> anything) loaded in about 4.864 seconds. Going to the same site
> via my laptop (also wireless) loaded in 5.513 seconds.
>
> The slowness I experienced was not so much with a web browser but in
> *downloading email*. The log in and subsequent downloading of email
> (from MS outrage express) would take many many minutes for simply one
> 2K message. I do not experience this behavior in MOL when using the
> ethernet cable connected to the base station. Try your email program
> and see what results you get.
>
> Oh, that makes me wonder. I wonder if there is a subsequent slow down
> in email on the linux side when using airport? I'll have to check.
>
>
> --William K. Gibson
> 1stDesk Systems
> firstdesk@columbus.rr.com
-- Brice Ruth WebProjkt, Inc. ph. (773) 562-1008 http://www.webprojkt.com/
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