From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 27 16:45:46 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8170F106566C for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:45:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from boydjd@jbip.net) Received: from mail-yx0-f182.google.com (mail-yx0-f182.google.com [209.85.213.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 466D38FC17 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:45:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe42 with SMTP id 42so688880yxe.13 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:45:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.101.136.30 with SMTP id o30mr1419130ann.224.1280249144545; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:45:44 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.207.19 with HTTP; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:45:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Joshua Boyd Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:45:24 -0400 Message-ID: To: Beach Geek Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCI AP card recommendations X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:45:46 -0000 On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Beach Geek wrote: > Looking for feedback from people using FreeBSD v8.x as access points. > We will be using Pentium 3 boxes with 8-STABLE as APs. > Each box will have a unique SSID and use WPA2-PSK. > Each AP will be linked back to 2 gateways. > > I'm looking for AP card suggestions and any helpful hints as far as the > APs. Looking for card models, not chipsets. > > Looking forward to hearing your experiences. > Thanks, > RJ > > PS. We're looking for info beyond the FreeBSD documentation, and related > to > the 8.x branch. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I can't recommend a card, but I can recommend that you don't use a ral card. The encryption support is poor, since most of the current cards don't have on-board encryption and it gets offloaded to the server, resulting in drops (for me, atleast). Due to this, I'm using a standalone AP, plugged into an ethernet card on my server. -- Joshua Boyd JBipNet E-mail: boydjd@jbip.net http://www.jbip.net