Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:48:52 -0800 From: Corey Chandler <lists@sequestered.net> To: raggen@raggens.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Nerius Landys <nlandys@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Wireless router? Message-ID: <49502764.10405@sequestered.net> In-Reply-To: <4950245D.5090006@telia.com> References: <560f92640812221349y683a7cbhce8ae0f22a8bedf0@mail.gmail.com> <4950245D.5090006@telia.com>
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Roger Olofsson wrote: > > > Nerius Landys skrev: >> I have a PC with FreeBSD set up as a router (NAT). The PC has several >> network cards and I'm grouping the internal-facing network cards as a >> bridge (promiscuous mode for the interfaces). Everything works well. >> >> Now I'd like to extend my wired network to include wireless. I really >> have no experience with wireless networks. I have a couple of >> computers that are wireless-ready (a laptop and a Playstation 3 that I >> won in a raffle). Is it possible to somehow add some hardware to my >> FreeBSD router PC to make it into a wireless router? What kind of >> hardware would I install? What is it called? The PC only has PCI >> slots, can you recommend a brand and model of "wireless server >> equiptment" if such a thing exists? Would a normal wireless card >> suffice? What model should I get? I would prefer to set up static >> internal IPs for my wireless network at home, would this be possible? >> Or is DHCP the way to go (I hesitate at the thought of configuring a >> DHCP server). >> >> Another way to go is to hook up a standalone wireless router appliance >> to my FreeBSD machine's network interface (one of the interfaces). I >> already have such a device, I think it's made by Linksys. But then, I >> would be NAT'ing both through the FreeBSD machine and through the >> wireless router. So it would be a double-NAT so to speak. Is there >> anything wrong with that approach? >> >> So in a nutshell, I have a wired FreeBSD router with multiple ethernet >> jacks at home, and I want to extend it to include wireless network. >> Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus >> Database: 270.10.0/1861 - Release Date: 2008-12-22 11:23 >> > > Hello Nerius, > > I simply bought a standard wireless router, turned off all services in > it except the access list and plugged it in the LAN. The access list > filters on mac addresses and that level of security is fine where I live. > > The wireless router does have firewall, dhcp, port triggering and such > but I disabled all of those since my FreeBSDs do all of that already. > > The wireless router has one port for internet and four ports as a > normal switch, I don't use the internet port. I just plug in the > ethernet cable in the switch part as uplink. > > I considered having a wifi nic as accesspoint in the FreeBSD main > router, however, it was better for me to be able to place the wifi > router for optimal range of the wifi. Turned out that the centre point > for wifi is not the same as where the main router is.... > > Greetings > > /Roger > > This is definitely the route I'd go. I'm a BIG fan of the Buffalo wireless access points if they've re-entered the channel near you (a patent troll prevented their sale for the last 18 months, but that court case was just overturned), as they support DD-WRT. Failing that, the Linksys WRT54GL isn't a half bad unit. Custom firmware (dd-wrt, OpenWRT, Tomato) also give you a lot finer grained control over what happens on the AP. -- CJC
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