From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 22 21:49:47 2008 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 66A7F1065673 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:49:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nlandys@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f19.google.com (mail-bw0-f19.google.com [209.85.218.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6E038FC16 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:49:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nlandys@gmail.com) Received: by bwz12 with SMTP id 12so6374522bwz.19 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:49:45 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition; bh=oKNYQkidIWInBZrSSYdbo+WpfBV2Y2w8ki3hG+xBy6E=; b=TX7ehQHWAFp/6uUQGv4lkXOs2cBzV7QmNZZHn7eRHFlLZBOKxzuD/3n52o0WCLfiLO e1SkSj3NXxyH+qJjNToRVZJx1djmG5Mrpe8d6zqgWSD2vwgFev4QM4IczjdmOqkIu5Fg F4RF2ev0zxMrdpmNHCdJx4R+7ZUbYlVPub9A0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=La9m18PONA7QxuzIP5bzrprJH8ejAw6mniftkAjAPZayj33E2dr2yiHGFy6z7diLkH QGIMt8To5+NLx7mu5ZKZwkeL6EGFvPEetMGDTD0Gx35nAjMZVaXc1DQta9oSATfK74ed w7U105+W010+LP835lyfoW8sow1h+4ogwyG0I= Received: by 10.181.137.17 with SMTP id p17mr1519856bkn.193.1229982584943; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:49:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.181.13.11 with HTTP; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:49:44 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <560f92640812221349y683a7cbhce8ae0f22a8bedf0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:49:44 -0800 From: "Nerius Landys" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Wireless router? 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: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:49:47 -0000 I have a PC with FreeBSD set up as a router (NAT). The PC has several network cards and I'm grouping the internal-facing network cards as a bridge (promiscuous mode for the interfaces). Everything works well. Now I'd like to extend my wired network to include wireless. I really have no experience with wireless networks. I have a couple of computers that are wireless-ready (a laptop and a Playstation 3 that I won in a raffle). Is it possible to somehow add some hardware to my FreeBSD router PC to make it into a wireless router? What kind of hardware would I install? What is it called? The PC only has PCI slots, can you recommend a brand and model of "wireless server equiptment" if such a thing exists? Would a normal wireless card suffice? What model should I get? I would prefer to set up static internal IPs for my wireless network at home, would this be possible? Or is DHCP the way to go (I hesitate at the thought of configuring a DHCP server). Another way to go is to hook up a standalone wireless router appliance to my FreeBSD machine's network interface (one of the interfaces). I already have such a device, I think it's made by Linksys. But then, I would be NAT'ing both through the FreeBSD machine and through the wireless router. So it would be a double-NAT so to speak. Is there anything wrong with that approach? So in a nutshell, I have a wired FreeBSD router with multiple ethernet jacks at home, and I want to extend it to include wireless network. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.