On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 03:18:52PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 01:40:55PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > > Would people now recommend running an AP "natively", > > i.e. a wifi card (plus the anthenas) on and OpenBSD box > > over running wifi over a dedicated device? > > Not if you want a modern 11ac/ax AP. There is no driver which supports > hostap and matches off-the-shell APs in terms of stability and speed. > > athn(4) mostly works but is slow due to lack of proper 11n support > and has several unresolved performance bugs. And it still lacks > support for 3-antenna devices.
For what it's worth, I've been using: athn0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Atheros AR9287" rev 0x01: apic 2 int 16 athn0: AR9287 rev 2 (2T2R), ROM rev 4, address **:**:**:**:**:** in hostAP mode for the last few months for file transfer via sftp and ssh between my pinephones and an OpenBSD machine. Performance is not amazing, but it does seem stable. I've also tested it in BBS mode connected to an android hotspot, and again, performance is not good but it's mostly stable.
