From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 24 01:14:26 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A9B2106566B for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:14:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sam@freebsd.org) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [69.12.149.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2240C8FC08 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:14:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sam@freebsd.org) Received: from trouble.errno.com (trouble.errno.com [10.0.0.248]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.13.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id m6O1EMuP044997 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:14:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sam@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <4887D76E.2070901@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:14:22 -0700 From: Sam Leffler Organization: FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071125) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Bennett References: <48877965.7080408@FreeBSD.org> <4887B5AC.3010908@claritysoftwaresystems.com> In-Reply-To: <4887B5AC.3010908@claritysoftwaresystems.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DCC-Rhyolite-Metrics: ebb.errno.com; whitelist Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless access points: consumer, commercial, or DIY? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:14:26 -0000 Mark Bennett wrote: >> I'm currently running X-Wrt which is the OpenWrt code base with a >> better web interface and bug fixes. > > You might also look at dd-wrt here: > > http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page > > I purchased and flashed a Linksys WRT54g Version 8 device, and used it > at home for a few weeks with zero problems. I'm planning to install it > for a commercial client. I became frustrated with the feature set on > reasonably priced APs (try finding one that you can bridge to another AP > securely, and good luck to you), as well as unreliable performance. > Short of going to a Cisco or some other commercial level product, this > seemed to be the best route. dd-wrt has a very full feature set. > > Some of the hardware mentioned on the dd-wrt site is commercial grade, > look at Ubiquti among others. Good luck, FreeBSD HEAD is the only open source system that does Dynamic WDS (DWDS). If you want to "bridge to another AP securely" it is the really the only thing to use. Sam