From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 8 09:38:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A14C16B175 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 07:39:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nick@nickwithers.com) Received: from mail.nickwithers.com (mail.manrags.com [203.219.206.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD81643D49 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 07:39:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nick@nickwithers.com) Received: from localhost (shmick.shmon.net [10.0.0.252]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.nickwithers.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F4643A9C5; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 17:39:28 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 17:39:28 +1000 From: Nick Withers To: John Nielsen Message-Id: <20060608173928.681ff2bc.nick@nickwithers.com> In-Reply-To: <200606071605.09139.lists@jnielsen.net> References: <20060607221131.a001ae57.nick@nickwithers.com> <200606071142.30426.mark@msen.com> <200606071605.09139.lists@jnielsen.net> Organization: nickwithers.com X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.5 (GTK+ 2.8.18; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-nickwithers-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-nickwithers-MailScanner-From: nick@nickwithers.com Cc: mark@msen.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Wireless Access Points with Atheros Cards X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 09:39:03 -0000 On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 16:05:08 -0400 John Nielsen 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: nick@nickwithers.com Web: http://www.nickwithers.com Mobile: +61 414 397 446