Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 16:19:36 -0500 From: stan <stanb@panix.com> To: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Wireless (802.11) question Message-ID: <20031027211936.GB2731@teddy.fas.com> In-Reply-To: <1067287374.7313.1.camel@revelation.home.net> References: <20031027203150.GB843@teddy.fas.com> <1067287374.7313.1.camel@revelation.home.net>
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On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 08:42:54PM +0000, Andrew Humphries wrote: > 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. > It helps _a lot_. Thak you! -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
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