ath hostap and carp ?

[Brian McKerr]

Hello all,

can anyone tell me if running 'ath' based cards in hostap mode is 
reliable and stable ? I'm deciding whether to get a linksys wrt54g or to 
throw an ath based card in my firewall and run it as the AP.


Also, does anyone know if I can run carp on wireless cards ? 
Specifically, I currently have a carp based firewall setup and I was 
wondering if running both of these as AP could give me AP failover ?


Thanks,

Brian.

Re: ath hostap and carp ?

[Olivier Mehani]

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 21:35:36 +1000
Brian McKerr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 can anyone tell me if running 'ath' based cards in hostap mode is 
 reliable and stable ? I'm deciding whether to get a linksys wrt54g or
 to throw an ath based card in my firewall and run it as the AP.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /sbin/ifconfig ath0
ath0:
flags=8963UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST
mtu 1500 lladdr 00:02:6f:21:ea:79 media: IEEE802.11 autoselect mode 11b
hostap status: active
ieee80211: nwid narf chan 3 bssid 00:02:6f:21:ea:79 
[snip]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uptime
 9:23PM  up 29 days,  4:38, 1 user, load averages: 0.94, 0.76, 0.63
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a
OpenBSD mudrublic.narf.ssji.net 3.8 GENERIC#119 i386

Speaks by itself ;)

Be careful: 3.7 GENERIC has a problem with these chips, freezing the
system after a certain amount of data transferred in hostap mode.

Never had a problem since upgrading to 3.8-beta.

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Olivier Mehani [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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