From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 22 22:18:10 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 50E4B106564A for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:18:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mlobo@digiart.art.br) Received: from smtp2.brturbo.com.br (smtp2.brte.com.br [200.199.201.149]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4D5B8FC17 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:18:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mlobo@digiart.art.br) Received: from lobo (unknown [189.70.96.231]) by smtp2.brturbo.com.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0642F3402 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:11:34 -0200 (BRST) From: Mario Lobo Organization: DigiArt Systems To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:18:16 -0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <560f92640812221349y683a7cbhce8ae0f22a8bedf0@mail.gmail.com> <200812221905.32532.mlobo@digiart.art.br> In-Reply-To: <200812221905.32532.mlobo@digiart.art.br> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200812221918.16737.mlobo@digiart.art.br> Subject: Re: 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 22:18:10 -0000 On Monday 22 December 2008 19:05:32 Mario Lobo wrote: > On Monday 22 December 2008 18:49:44 Nerius Landys wrote: > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > If you already have a wireless router, all you have to do is to turn it > into an access point to your internal lan. Disable its DHCP server, assign > a free LAN IP to the router LAN ethernet,plug one of its LAN ports into > your switch and assign free LAN IPs to the wireless cards of your LAN > machines. > > That's what I did here at home and works like a charm. > > If you need a DHCP server you have to set it up on the FreeBSD router. Sorry for replying to myself but it needed a correction. You CAN use the wireless router as your DHCP server!. Just assign a range from your LAN's IPs. The WAN port won't matter. It won't be used. -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99,7% winedows FREE)