From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 7 11:21:47 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32396106566C for ; Sun, 7 Feb 2010 11:21:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from btillman99@yahoo.com) Received: from web36503.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web36503.mail.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.85.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E81E78FC15 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 2010 11:21:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 97936 invoked by uid 60001); 7 Feb 2010 11:21:46 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1265541706; bh=EJjPNM1Y8x/v2EPd3hm6FB36j7wPOH9z6qrI0rYT3fI=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=sIb9cjHO8a1Vn/ZSz0P6Eg9gE8+kKQifvFYsDW7EYXjHakh2Mb8EboUIE8yABfXDdJqQ1oAhu7P0kk2gQ8Rc/1V0SZ7sORXLkeG3LSHAZ2TMAhXTCpPxdFjparUj7EISr9sEeZzBunnN1e57iYv5EWCCqWVi+ZUZdJt8jduC9cM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=oqedowpW03vX+BaIY45wOpCfP+xxkkK0BIKejINHozVNmMprQk/evZAPkl6mwVAki03y3/t6b+Loi7uv36oDQ56VpjUXZJ4FJya65XT47BYEpRD7Z7r57yytXsYyYTMMvyl5CMcG6/t4/MgEoi1as8wWzgbiTJU7qRlU4XDy8qE=; Message-ID: <12277.97919.qm@web36503.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: 9jcdB3QVM1nfIK7scen99r5HEK3d8yJqRBvu7Cz45uKF9egm.uS2QDtDxcxp36MobjjWuUK80iATcOelk7vQ2UmUYdg0VIU6OUXm65tEF0x8VxCSufxBUec6jwooUZc2ngLJFxqbPbLtFqR.nBWgUnsXNnqQ6MV9SeLsqjGY19qUjtHrZcE2RKbOg_eryNDhp8ZyAdlt9fEAOygaAmr7BIP9j88.577AfjV3Bk15IgpdgZ3RzQr9wYVLBQqOV1H4MmEO12J0syt6r_mYdlVirziHzuwfgwqswNWxbchnRi2h7W4y.6l5jaQcwq9ehjjBA1KlusqHt9SbIIWnryK9esQfxFat3M3xz7e2M6ceCSrCC3try5B_eZNJDLO1va4bLtLKOrweHv_.3AJGvIYbR_cyxd_.O6X9iQ-- Received: from [98.242.237.166] by web36503.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:21:45 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/9.1.10 YahooMailWebService/0.8.100.260964 Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 03:21:45 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Tillman To: Matthew Seaman In-Reply-To: <4B6E95EA.6090009@infracaninophile.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless Access Point 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: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:21:47 -0000 Thanks to everyone for the great advice. For clarity on this I erased all t= he other previous messages. =A0 The bottome line is I got it to work. It was a problem with my NATD setup o= n the server inside the LAN which is running as AP for the wireless compute= rs in my house. It's all working grea. And like some of you pointed out I w= as natd_interface-ing to the wrong interface. That's all fixed now but ther= e are a few bigs which I don't know can be worked out. =A0 The extisting wireless D-Link router has been trouble free since I installe= d it and we routinely acheive download speeds on the wireless machines in e= xcess of 100KB/s. It's also very fast to assign IP's and it just seems to w= ork every time. So why replace it you ask...because I'm a stupid hack who j= ust can't stop experimenting with FreeBSD servers. And I do want to use thi= s new AP server to replace my old file server which is running DHCP for the= 10.0.0.0/24 segment and is running Samba and aloowing wireless people who = visit my house to store and share files. The whole thing works great as it = is but the old FreeBSD server is old and needs to go and the D-Link router = is well just needs to go. =A0 Now the problem is that the new AP server while the CPU us very fast and I = have two massive 2 TB drives in it, is not up to snuff on the wireless AP. = It can take forever to get an IP address and most of the time I only end up= with limited connection. The worst thig though is that even when I do make= s soild connection with this AP the download speed is horrendously slow. L= ast night I began downloading the ISO-DVD1 image of the 8.0 source from fre= ebsd.org and the max speed I got was only 39KB/s which means the download w= ould have taken almost 10 hours. On the other hand I resetup with the D-Lin= k router and the download was only going to take 90 minutes for the same fi= le. =A0 Guess I'm not out of the woods on this one yet. But again thanks to all who= replied and offered the helpful advice.=0A=0A=0A