Chintimini Wireless Project

Chintimini Wildlife Center has several buildings spread out 100-200' feet apart.

Objective: create a local area network that links the buildings together, and allow visitors to use WiFi connections.

There are a variety of out buildings. I have done a map, need to upload it.

1. Reception - At the front of the property
2. Residence - Cable Internet connection is here.
3. Clinic - 200' north of residence; PSTN phone line is available here
4. Raptor barn - north of clinic
5. Educational center - the "yurt" - 100 northeast of clinic

A wired network would be great, but hard to implement right now. We'd need to do over 300' of trenching. So I am going to try a wireless link first.

An indoor access point will be located in the residence. It will have a directional antenna aimed north to the clinic.

We can do a wired link from the residence to the reception building, they are in close proximity. Reception is not normally staffed, there is a door bell that rings in the clinic. So this is low priority.

On the clinic roof will be a mast with two EZ-Go-2 Wifi AP's. AP1 will point south towards the residence and AP2 will point northeast towards the yurt.

AP1 will be talking to a generic access point so it has to look like a client.

AP2 will be talking to sundry laptops in the yurt and outside so it has to look like an access point. In the Yurt I will need another access point configured to look like a client with a lan in the yurt; there are 3 or 4 computers there.

EZ-G0 config notes

Firmware: 139_01.02 (Jan 2 2009)

Checklist

• Set clock
• Set IP address.
• Set passwords.
• Turn off telnet access.

File server

I am setting up a Via CN100000 Mini-ITX (fanless) with 512MB of RAM and an 80 GB Seagate Momentus 2.5" 7200rpm drive. It's in a little black pizzabox case.

I toyed with the idea of setting up Debian Live but could not get it to boot from a USB stick so I decided to go with installing the OS on the SATA drive for now. Once the OS is installed I might try doing the boot-from-CF thing.

I am also looking at using Freeswitch as the PBX software instead of Asterisk, just to see how it works.

I would like to get Freeswitch to work with MySQL.

Other stuff that I could do with this mini-server?

• Lighttpd or Apache + PHP + MySQL
• ssh server
• Web cam server?

Phone system

I have a SPA3102 that I will probably use to bridge the existing phone line to an internal VOIP network.

I am thinking about using FreeSwitch instead of Asterisk this time, See my VOIP page.