On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 16:05:08 -0400 John Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 June 2006 11:42, Mark Moellering wrote: > > On Wednesday 07 June 2006 8:11 am, Nick Withers wrote: (snip) > > > My question, then, is this: Is the access point I've set up not > > > actually functioning as an access point in the strictest sense > > > of the term? Is the Handbook in need of a little attention in > > > this area? > > > > > > I'll happily create a patch for the doc and submit a PR to > > > have it updated, but just wanted to check before doing so that > > > I'm not just being an idiot (I'm particularly good at that!). > > > I tried this maybe a month back. I added an ath card to a firewall > > (becoming the third NIC) and set it up following the directions. While I > > could connect to the access point/firewall, I could not get to anything > > beyond it. After some reading, I decdied to buy a standalone access point > > and replace the wireless ath card with a wired card to use to connect to > > the access point. The standalone access point (Netgear) wasn't that much > > more than the card and from everything I have read is the better way to go. > > If you are able to sned data through the access point, I would love to > > hear about it... > > Yes, ath(4) is actually the preferred driver for creating FreeBSD-based > wireless access points, and the handbook probably does need to be updated. No > one has been doing any work on the wi driver in quite some time, whereas Sam > Leffler has been doing a LOT of work to keep ath up-to-date and highly > functional. Righto, cheers for that. I've started drafting an update that I'll try to get in soon (depending on how much exam procrastination I can pack in!). > I run a FreeBSD 6-STABLE machine as an access point at home and it works > fine. > I couldn't get it to work with if_bridge, so I just set up wireless to be its > own subnet with the FreeBSD machine doing NAT and routing between the three > interfaces (external, internal wired, and internal wireless). Sounds fairly similar to what I did. These guys didn't want an internal wired network though... > JN -- Nick Withers email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.nickwithers.com Mobile: +61 414 397 446 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
