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Are there routers that can authenticate through a PC?

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Ok, I would like a wireless router for the network I'm on, but the network requires authentication (I believe via the Mac address of the device?) and uses an Internet Explorer activex control to identify the computer. Would it be possible to set up a wireless router by having it authenticate through the computer?
 
If the authentication really uses ActiveX and IE you're pretty much screwed and I wouldn't put too much faith in that auth either.
 
yeah, find a new provider. Only other option is to do ICS with the wireless PC running as the "router" for other PC's
 
Originally posted by: nweaver
yeah, find a new provider. Only other option is to do ICS with the wireless PC running as the "router" for other PC's
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Anyway to set up a pc as an actual access point and not just ad hoc? I haven't found ad hoc to be very reliable.
 
Anyway to set up a pc as an actual access point and not just ad hoc? I haven't found ad hoc to be very reliable.
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It's definitely possible, a number of Linux drivers support Master mode but i have no idea what Windows drivers do it, if any.
 
If you set up a wireless router, and plug the WAN port into the PC while running ICS it should work...as long as you set it up correctly. you'll need two NICs on the PC of course.
 
Originally posted by: ch33zw1z
If you set up a wireless router, and plug the WAN port into the PC while running ICS it should work...as long as you set it up correctly. you'll need two NICs on the PC of course.
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2 nics? That's inconvenient, but would a USB to ethernet adapter work?
 
sure, doesn't matter what type. it matters how you forward the data through the routing PC. You have to use one NIC to interface w/ the wireless router, passing data to the other NIC which is interfacing w/ the network/internet connection. that's how all routing devices work, whether it's a hardware device such as a Linksys/Dlink/etc, or a piece of software such as ICS that runs on a PC...
 
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