From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 6 10:51:32 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9DFC16A407 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2006 10:51:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joao@matik.com.br) Received: from msrv.matik.com.br (msrv.matik.com.br [200.152.83.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AB0C43D46 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2006 10:51:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joao@matik.com.br) Received: from ap-h.matik.com.br (ap-h.matik.com.br [200.152.83.36]) by msrv.matik.com.br (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k96ApQRp058953; Fri, 6 Oct 2006 07:51:26 -0300 (BRT) (envelope-from joao@matik.com.br) From: JoaoBR Organization: Infomatik To: Bachilo Dmitry , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 07:51:38 -0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <20061005163701.99834.qmail@web26410.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <200610060923.15885.root@solink.ru> In-Reply-To: <200610060923.15885.root@solink.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610060751.39058.joao@matik.com.br> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on msrv.matik.com.br X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Subject: Re: WDS / Repeater support? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 10:51:32 -0000 On Thursday 05 October 2006 23:23, you wrote: > It's a very interesting question IMHO. If I had to try making FreeBSD bei= ng > a Wireless Repeater, I would first try to install two PCI Wi-Fi cards in = it > and applied if_bridge to them, then checked if it works. But I had no > chance to try it yet. I would like to hear right answer on this question. If you use on both cards adhoc mode it should actually work but if you mean= =20 one as client of an Ap and the other as hostap it does not bridge the WL=20 clients through I put three cards in each repeater one as hostap with IP acting as GW for the conected WL clientes the other two as adhoc so I route IP subnets from point to point probably a better solution since I get less broadcast and arp-spoofing-risk= is=20 low since I have small subnets, also the performance is extremly good even= =20 behind several repeaters=20 If you have on the gateway a WL card and adhoc connection to another box yo= u=20 can run hostap and if_bridge with a second card and works fine but as=20 repeater no way actually. I would like to see adhoc p2mp mode so I could have an adhoc base station a= nd=20 could connect several accesspoints (configuring bssid of each of them at th= e=20 base station) with one adhoc and one hostap card running if_bridge =2D-=20 Jo=E3o A mensagem foi scaneada pelo sistema de e-mail e pode ser considerada segura. Service fornecido pelo Datacenter Matik https://datacenter.matik.com.br