From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 16 06:10:31 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 8E95816A4B3 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 06:10:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EB4243FAF for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 06:10:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19zFax-00046c-00 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 15:10:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19zFYO-00044H-00 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 15:07:36 +0200 Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19zFYc-0000iN-00 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 15:07:50 +0200 From: Jesse Guardiani Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 09:07:50 -0400 Organization: WingNET Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 X-Mail-Copies-To: never Sender: news Subject: RE: 802.11g and FreeBSD based access point ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jesse@wingnet.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 13:10:31 -0000 Vledder, Hans wrote: > Hi Greg, > >> Based on that, it's not clear why you would want to >> build an AP from a wireless card. > > Well, this to avoid having to deal with a 'swiss army knife' type of box, > just like the one you're describing. Nowadays these boxes have everything > in them, and the single thing that they apparently can't do is bake bread. Probably depends on how many processors you have.... -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net