Hi,
I run pfSense on a few ALIX boxes, usually as tunnel end and as access
point. When I can plug one of these machines into any (wired) network, I
have easy access to my home network through the private WLAN the ALIX
provides.
This works beautifully.
I travel a lot and today hotels only provide WLAN access. Ethernet ports
in hotel rooms are relics of the past.
I solved this problem by using a Mac to connect to the Hotel WLAN and
then select "Share my Intenet (WLAN) connection to Ethernet" in the
"Sharing" control panel. When I then connect the ALIX WAN interface to
my Mac using a cable, things again work nicely, but I effectively block
a Mac as router that I would rather carry around.
My thought was "throw a second ALIX box at the problem and make that one
connect as client to the hotel's WLAN", then plug the two ALIX's
together with a short cable.
I did try this, hacking the hotel's WLAN details into the WLAN interface
configuration of the second ALIX (configured to use "Infrastructure"
mode, of course), but the WLAN interface always stays down, no matter
what I try.
My hope was that the the hotel's captive portal mechanism could be
fooled to give access to my client ALIX from any client computer
connected to AP provided by ALIX number 1, but as the client ALIX's WLAN
is always down, I didn't even make it to this point.
Did anyone here successfully do this (and share some insights)?
Thanks,
Ray
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