On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Chad Walstrom wrote:
> I believe you can just use "iwconfig <interface>" from the Linux
> wireless tools packages.  i.e.
>
> 	#!/bin/sh -e
> 	# Run this script w/the first arg being the location (i.e.
> 	# "takewstat room221"
> 	iwconfig >> ${1:-"unspecified"}.stat
>
> You should get signal and noise stats right there.  Sure, it's not all
> pretty and graphed for you, but it's the data that's important.

With my Cisco card, the numbers you get are useless (using wireless-tools
v25 and wireless extensions 14, with whatever driver for the Cisco card is
in 2.4.20-pre2).  :( With a Prism2 card, they look ok, though..

> I wonder if the University of Minnesota NTS department has published
> their authentication software yet.  At the U, every student, faculty
> and staff member receive X.500 accounts with which they can
> authenticate via a web interface or system logins (UNIX).  The NTS
> department uses the X.500 accounts to authenticate wireless users by
> tying in the DHCP subnet with DNS forwarding and/or iptables/ipchains
> filtering.
>
> The user then goes to the website to authenticate.  When the
> authentication is approved, the controlling daemon opens up the
> firewall and routing rules for the DHCP IP address associated with
> that person. It's pretty slick.
>
> There was also an article in one of the recent System Administrator
> magazine with something to that effect.

Sounds like fancy nocatauth.

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