Re: Hardware for OpenBSD based access point

2022-03-15 Thread Laurence Tratt
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 01:52:15AM +0100, Nicolas Goy wrote: Hello Nicolas, > I use OpenBSD for all my network gears except wireless access points. > > My current access points are getting old and I'd like to replace them. I was also in the same place a year or so ago. After seeing many recommen

Re: Hardware for OpenBSD based access point

2022-03-15 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2022-03-15, Stuart Longland wrote: > On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 20:16:14 +0100 > Nicolas Goy wrote: > >> I heard that controller based AP "fleet" can mitigate that by >> kicking devices that are on the "wrong" AP. But I am not sure how it >> works in practice as I only read about it and it is not any

Re: Hardware for OpenBSD based access point

2022-03-14 Thread Nicolas Goy
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 02:31:13PM -, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > Roaming decisions are client-side though there are some things an AP can > do to influence them. At present, with non communicating AP, the android clients are holding to their AP for way too long. For example if I enable wifi

Re: Hardware for OpenBSD based access point

2022-03-14 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2022-03-14, Nicolas Goy wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 01:32:35PM -, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> There's no chance of meeting all of these requirements with OpenBSD. >> >> For AP-side 11ac there are some bwfm(4) devices which _might_ do but they >> are not common. Really at this point the

Re: Hardware for OpenBSD based access point

2022-03-14 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2022-03-14, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 04:58:07AM +0100, Nicolas Goy wrote: >> I actually have an OpenWRT box (LTE SMS gateway, the LTE modem wasn't >> compatible with OpenBSD when I installed it), and yeah, it is very >> decent. I guess that would be a viable alternative.

Re: Hardware for OpenBSD based access point

2022-03-14 Thread Nicolas Goy
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 01:32:35PM -, Stuart Henderson wrote: > There's no chance of meeting all of these requirements with OpenBSD. > > For AP-side 11ac there are some bwfm(4) devices which _might_ do but they > are not common. Really at this point the emphasis for wifi on OpenBSD > is for cl

Re: Hardware for OpenBSD based access point

2022-03-14 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2022-03-14, Nicolas Goy wrote: > Hello, > > I use OpenBSD for all my network gears except wireless access points. > > My current access points are getting old and I'd like to replace them. > > I did a bit of researches and there are quite some boards supported by > OpenBSD, but I cannot find o

Re: Hardware for OpenBSD based access point

2022-03-14 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 04:58:07AM +0100, Nicolas Goy wrote: > I actually have an OpenWRT box (LTE SMS gateway, the LTE modem wasn't > compatible with OpenBSD when I installed it), and yeah, it is very > decent. I guess that would be a viable alternative. It is possible to install OpenWRT on some

Re: Hardware for OpenBSD based access point

2022-03-14 Thread Paulo Mafra
Hi, i have an ubiquiti u6-lr connected in bridge mode with an openbsd router. The controller runs on the openbsd, take a look at ports packages. It works like a sharm and i can reach about 400 mbps in wifi. Regards, Paulo. > Em 14 de mar. de 2022, à(s) 04:41, Stuart Longland > escreveu:

Re: Hardware for OpenBSD based access point

2022-03-14 Thread Jan Stary
On Mar 14 01:52:15, k...@goyman.com wrote: > I use OpenBSD for all my network gears except wireless access points. Same here. > My current access points are getting old and I'd like to replace them. > I did a bit of researches and there are quite some boards > supported by OpenBSD, but I cannot f

Re: Hardware for OpenBSD based access point

2022-03-13 Thread T K
If it could be Linux (if) consider also Mikrotik stuff. No need to run any java-driven "controller", you can use shell or its internal webserver to manage. And last but bot least - use of the cloud services (hovewer offered) is not required. I'm not sure if it's officially reselled to Switzerland,

Re: Hardware for OpenBSD based access point

2022-03-13 Thread Nicolas Goy
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 01:45:09PM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote: > On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 03:43:01 +0100 > Nicolas Goy wrote: > > > I looked at the hardware that was supported, but I forgot to check > > the wifi controller, I took that for granted, my bad. > > > > Thanks for the pcengine suggestion

Re: Hardware for OpenBSD based access point

2022-03-13 Thread Nicolas Goy
On 14.03.22 03:28, Atticus wrote: AFAIK, OpenBSD doesn't support .11ac or .11ax at all, with only a very limited number of cards supporting Host AP mode. The only .11n ones I found being athn(4), bwfm(4), and ral(4). The (few) others that support Host AP mode only do so in .11g or .11b. In t