Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:23:13 -0600 From: Espartano <espartano.mail@gmail.com> To: Modulok <modulok@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers? Message-ID: <d353bd50903251223q340b5d60xb982facd86332dbb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <64c038660903210543v1cebe63fr4424bebc58076e4a@mail.gmail.com> References: <64c038660903210543v1cebe63fr4424bebc58076e4a@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 6:43 AM, Modulok <modulok@gmail.com> wrote: > List, > > I have been tasked with getting a DSL connection across about 10km of > no-man's-land to a rural location without internet access. Ideally, > all traffic inbetween the two directional antennas would be encrypted. > (Nice, but not entirely required.) 3Mb/s would be great! Something > like: > > LAN<->BSDrouter<->modem<->Antenna<~~air~~>Antenna<->modem<->DSL > > I'm looking for general pointers of both hardware and software to > achieve this. I'd like to employ FreeBSD as much as is feasible. This > is my first WAN network project, so even newbie pointers and general > references would be much appreciated. (Hardware suggestions, books to > read, etc.) Reliability is of mild concern, simply because I don't > want to drive 10km at 3:00am when something breaks. > > Tips? References? Advice? May be you should use two embedded hardware (to acomplish yours BSDRouter) like this: http://www.pcengines.ch/alix2d0.htm or like this: http://www.soekris.com/net4526.htm The second one is more expensive than the firts one. Attaching one poweful mini-pci Atheros wireless card on each hardware embedded you might could get large distance. you ought to use one mini-pci wireless card like this: http://www.netgate.com/product_info.php?cPath=26_34&products_id=694 it's a very expensive wireless card but it's very powerful card too, it work with 1watt of power when work in IEEE802.11g/b modes also you need to use two good directional antennas may be like this: http://www.netgate.com/product_info.php?products_id=395 I had used the embedded hardware http://www.pcengines.ch/alix2d0.htm with NanoBSD and I got good results but i never need getting large distances like you. -- "Linux is for people who hate Windows, BSD is for people who love UNIX". "Social Engineer -> Because there is no patch for human stupidity" "The Unix Guru's View of Sex unzip ; strip ; touch ; grep ; finger ; mount ; fsck ; more ; yes ; umount ; sleep." "Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing."
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