From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 27 12:46:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5509D16A4B3 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:46:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (mta07-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 121E543FE0 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:46:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from humphie@ucip.boyko.org) Received: from revelation.home.net ([81.97.165.113]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.comESMTP <20031027204620.NEUE2637.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@revelation.home.net>; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:46:20 +0000 From: Andrew Humphries To: stan In-Reply-To: <20031027203150.GB843@teddy.fas.com> References: <20031027203150.GB843@teddy.fas.com> Message-Id: <1067287374.7313.1.camel@revelation.home.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:42:54 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: Wireless (802.11) question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:46:26 -0000 On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 20:31, stan wrote: > I'm about to embark on a wireless experiemnt, having never dealt with this > technology before. > > So, I've got a failry basic question. My plan was to put a wireless card in > a machine running FreeBSD, and use this machine as a gateway from an > existing network to a new subnet that would only exist in the wireless > world. > > Some people are telling me that I can't do that. They are saying I need an > "access point" device for all the various devices to communicate to. > > Am I on the wrong track here? You can turn a FreeBSD box into a wireless access point: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html Hope that helps, mate. Regards, -- Andrew Humphries