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.
- Reception - At the front of the property
- Residence - Cable Internet connection is here.
- Clinic - 200' north of residence; PSTN phone line is available here
- Raptor barn - north of clinic
- 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 CN10000 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?
- Do I need DHCP service?
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.
