Re: [SAGE] Apple Airport base station admin SW for Wintel

[Trish Lynch <trish@bsdunix.net>]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, David Wolfskill wrote:

> >Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 00:34:46 -0800
> >From: Vincent Cordrey <vcordrey18588@endlessknot.com>
>
> >In short, it's not a perfect solution, but something to
> >consider.  Now, with administration SW available for Windows
> >systems, you don't necessarily have to have a Mac to
> >configure them....
>
> At least for the older AirPorts (short WEP keys, as a result of
> using a Lucent "silver" PCMCIA card; single wired Ethernet port),
> there's also a Java-based configurator (in net/airport in the FreeBSD
> "ports"; see http://edge.mcs.drexel.edu/GICL/people/sevy/airport/
> for the details), which is even more handy for those of us who
> wouldn't trust a Microsoft-based product for anything important.
>

on FreeBSD, its in /usr/ports/net/airport and it works wonderfully :)

I've been using it for the better part of a year now, and its not given me
problems, though I've heard of some people trashing thier airport configs
with it, theres also the Lucent CLI configurator which works with the
airport, for those "rescue" moments. (Yes, I've had to do that too)

-Trish

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