From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Jul 9 14:58:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mighty.grot.org (mighty.grot.org [216.15.97.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24B9637B406 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 14:58:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aditya@grot.org) Received: by mighty.grot.org (Postfix, from userid 515) id 412485DA9; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 14:58:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 14:58:28 -0700 From: "R.P. Aditya" To: imp@harmony.village.org Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless base stations Message-ID: <20010709145828.A33741@mighty.grot.org> Reply-To: "R.P. Aditya" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-PGP-Key: http://www.grot.org/pubkey.asc X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x6405D8D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Needless to say, it all depends on what features you want. I use my AP as a dumb bridge (I could have easily used a wi card with Julian Elischer's AP code but had to put the AP in place I didn't want a larger FreeBSD box) without an out-of-the-box external antenna option. I prefer to entrust security to the application level than use WEP, and use FreeBSD or a Cisco for routing/NAT functions. To that end, I bought the cheapest unit I could find, which was: > D-Link DWL-1000AP Wireless Access Point 11Mbps 802.11B > Wireless LAN Access Point with 40-bit encryption $180 It works very well for what it is. I've found that the Dlink card (650) has an underpowered antenna and that the above AP with an Orinoco/Wavelan card has much better range (though I have to manually set wicontrol -s 8 often, same as with the Avaya AP-500/1000). Some config details: It asks for an address for itself via DHCP by default, which is what I prefer anyway. All config is via SNMP (yuck, but it's cheap). Here are what I consider to be the essential settings that one might want to change (I got these by sniffing the SNMP back and forth the Windows manager uses): #ro string snmpset 10.10.10.54 private .1.3.6.1.4.1.937.2.1.2.1.0 s public #rw string snmpset 10.10.10.54 private .1.3.6.1.4.1.937.2.1.2.2.0 s private #SSID snmpset 10.10.10.54 private .1.2.840.10036.1.1.1.9.1 s "default" #channel snmpset 10.10.10.54 private .1.2.840.10036.4.5.1.1.1 i 6 These are in commands the UCD-SNMP snmpset command can use. I've tried a few different of the more expensive APs (inc. AP-1000, Intel 2011) and unless there is a compelling need for an external antenna or the ability to upgrade to 802.11a via a single card, the DWL-1000AP seems as good (in the radio 2.4Ghz sense). Adi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message