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    Design and Implementation of A Wireless Lan Hot Spot

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    This document outlines a project to design and implement a wireless LAN hotspot. The objectives are to understand how routing, firewalls, and network address translation can provide secure wireless connectivity. Group members gathered knowledge on wireless networking, DHCP, firewalling with ipchains, and IP masquerading. They configured a Linux server with wireless adapters as a gateway, DHCP server, and IP masquerading using ipchains. Plans for next semester include implementing web-based authentication with Apache and PHP. Problems encountered included limited resources for a security gateway setup and USB wireless adapter issues.

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    This document outlines a project to design and implement a wireless LAN hotspot. The objectives are to understand how routing, firewalls, and network address translation can provide secure wireless connectivity. Group members gathered knowledge on wireless networking, DHCP, firewalling with ipchains, and IP masquerading. They configured a Linux server with wireless adapters as a gateway, DHCP server, and IP masquerading using ipchains. Plans for next semester include implementing web-based authentication with Apache and PHP. Problems encountered included limited resources for a security gateway setup and USB wireless adapter issues.

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    This document outlines a project to design and implement a wireless LAN hotspot. The objectives are to understand how routing, firewalls, and network address translation can provide secure wireless connectivity. Group members gathered knowledge on wireless networking, DHCP, firewalling with ipchains, and IP masquerading. They configured a Linux server with wireless adapters as a gateway, DHCP server, and IP masquerading using ipchains. Plans for next semester include implementing web-based authentication with Apache and PHP. Problems encountered included limited resources for a security gateway setup and USB wireless adapter issues.

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    Design and Implementation of A Wireless Lan Hot Spot

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    This document outlines a project to design and implement a wireless LAN hotspot. The objectives are to understand how routing, firewalls, and network address translation can provide secure wireless connectivity. Group members gathered knowledge on wireless networking, DHCP, firewalling with ipchains, and IP masquerading. They configured a Linux server with wireless adapters as a gateway, DHCP server, and IP masquerading using ipchains. Plans for next semester include implementing web-based authentication with Apache and PHP. Problems encountered included limited resources for a security gateway setup and USB wireless adapter issues.

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    DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION

    OF A WIRELESS LAN HOT SPOT

    Group members:

    M.S.A.Ahamed (E/02A/006)
    S.Atchuthan (E/02A/017)
    S.M.Rinos (E/02A/217)
    Supervisor:

    Dr.M.Sandirigama
    Objectives
     The objective of this project is to understand how
    routing and IP network security (firewalls and IP
    masquerading – Network Address and Port
    translation) can be integrated to offer secure wireless
    connectivity. Hot spot service.

     Applications:
     WLAN Access Offered in Coffee shop, Airport and
    Library …..etc
    Knowledge Gathered
     Functioning of 802.11 based wireless access network
     DHCP daemon (DHCPd) use and configuration
     ipchains use for firewalling and IP masquerading
     Configuring a notebook running Linux to work as a
    router and moderately sophisticated security gateway.
     Web-based authentication
     PHP
     Apache Web Server
    Configuration Setup
    Setup
     Installed RedHat Linux Enterprise Edition
     Wireless LAN
     DHCP server installation & configuration
     IPchains for IP masquerading
     Shell script
    Wireless LAN
     An Access Point (AP)
     Two USB wireless adapters
     A Linux Server (gateway)
     A windows client
     Driver for the windows was provided by vendor.
     For Linux ZD1211 driver was downloaded , installed
    and configured
     Hotplug
    DHCP Server
     Installed during the red hat installation.
     Created dhcpd.conf file -This is the configuration file
    for the DHCP daemon, for the wireless network
     Copied the file into /etc.
     Edited /etc/sysconfig/dhcpd
     Created files stores the DHCP client lease database
     touch /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases
     Start the daemon.
     /etc/rc.d/init.d/dhcpd start
    Shell scripting
     Learned the fundamental of Unix shell
    scripting techniques
     Shell programming
     Variables, rules and shell arithmetic
     Programming commands
     echo, if and test commands
     Loop and case statements
    Example script for starting dhcpd
    daemon

    # vi start_dhcpd.sh
    /etc/rc.d/init.d/dhcpd start
    # chmod +x start_dhcpd.sh
    # ./start_dhcpd.sh
    IPmasquerading
     For a Linux server which has more than one
    external interface, it is possible to use the
    Linux server as a NAT Firewall.
    # ipchains -P forward DENY
    # ipchains -A forward -j MASQ -s y.y.y.y/24 -d
    0.0.0.0/0

     Filtering by IP address
     # ipchains -A input -j DENY -p all -l -s x.x.x.x/x -d
    0.0.0.0/0
    IP masquerading …
     Filtering by port
     # ipchains -A input -j DENY -p tcp -l -s
    0.0.0.0/0 -d y.y.y.y/32 513
     # ipchains -A input -j ACCEPT -p tcp -s
    x.x.x.x/24 -d y.y.y.y/32 513

     Filtering by interface
     # ipchains -A input -j DENY -p tcp -l -s 0.0.0.0/0 -i
    ppp0 -d y.y.y.y/32 80

     Enabling IP forwarding

    # echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
    Tasks for Next Semester
     Web base Authentication using –apache server
    and php.
     Set up script which includes all initializations
    and configurations commands.
     Security gateway
     Miscellaneous settings
    Problems encountered
     Couldn’t find a notebook to set up security Gateway,
    due to limited resources.
     PCs are used by other people for their projects,
     Couldn’t get an iPAQ to work as a client.
     Problems arose in continuing virtual machine
    approach which we mentioned in the last BWR, due
    to lack of memory (RAM). We only had 128 MB
    memory in our personnel computer. So it became
    impossible to test Server and client in computer.
     USB wireless adapter is not suitable for Gateway
    Demonstration

    Linux gateway

    Access Point

    Windows client
    Thank you

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