From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 27 13:19:38 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 9B8FA16A4B3 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 13:19:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail3.panix.com (mail3.panix.com [166.84.1.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D65B43FD7 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 13:19:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stanb@panix.com) Received: from panix.com (brillig.panix.com [166.84.1.76]) by mail3.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B92159838D for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 16:19:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from teddy.fas.com (pcp01010374pcs.mplsnt01.sc.comcast.net [68.58.176.69]) by panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9838A2AA48 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 16:19:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from stan by teddy.fas.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AEEm0-0000jZ-00 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 16:19:36 -0500 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 16:19:36 -0500 From: stan To: Free BSD Questions list Message-ID: <20031027211936.GB2731@teddy.fas.com> Mail-Followup-To: Free BSD Questions list References: <20031027203150.GB843@teddy.fas.com> <1067287374.7313.1.camel@revelation.home.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1067287374.7313.1.camel@revelation.home.net> X-Editor: gVim X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux X-Kernel-Version: 2.4.21 X-Uptime: 16:17:17 up 3 days, 5:49, 1 user, load average: 0.06, 0.02, 0.03 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: Stan Brown 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 21:19:38 -0000 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