If you are unhappy
with the type of access you get from your mobile operator, if you want to give your
company's users access to intranet WAP services, if you want a separate system to develop
your WAP services on, or if you just want to play around, setting up your own WAP device
dialup service is quite simple.
There are many solutions available on the market, from the high-end boxed Cisco Access
Servers (AS5200), to the low-end and much cheaper software based solutions from Microsoft,
NT Remote Access Service, and Novell's Netware Connect.
It would take a lot of work explaining how to configure all these different systems in
this FAQ, and after all this is not really related to WAP. A WAP device after all gets IP
just like your home computer via the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP).
You should have no problems setting it up on other systems either. Just remember that if
you can dial in with say the Windows98 Dialup-Networking, you can almost certainly dial in
with a WAP device as well.
This takes care of the WAP devices'
access to IP. Now you need to set up your own internal WAP gateway and a HTTP server, or
you could just use any publically available WAP gateway and HTTP server. |