Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:42:54 +0000 From: Andrew Humphries <humphie@ucip.boyko.org> To: stan <stanb@panix.com> Cc: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Wireless (802.11) question Message-ID: <1067287374.7313.1.camel@revelation.home.net> In-Reply-To: <20031027203150.GB843@teddy.fas.com> References: <20031027203150.GB843@teddy.fas.com>
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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 <humphie@ucip.boyko.org>
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