On Fri 15 Jul 2016 16:58:34 NZST +1200, Alexandre Paradis wrote: > You could put a regular nic, then plug a regular home wifi router (with > dhcp disabled) on one of the lan port.
This is probably the best bet. It makes the location of the AP (antenna position) independent of the location of the pfsense hardware. Putting a wifi card into a pfsense box has all sorts of problems, missing/useless Freebsd wifi drivers being a big one. It doesn't seem soeasy to find a reliably good AP though, at least for a resonable budget. Vodafone New Zealand gave out Netcomm NP805N do-it-all home rubbish^H^H^Hrouters. Yes you can disable dhcp on the wifi side, but the thing is too dumb to forward wifi dhcp requests to pfsense so Net-no-comm's only use is as a dust-collector. I have a USB wifi AP running (Tenda W322U), well sort of. pfsense/freebsd's driver isn't very good and doesn't run the hardware at full speed (54M only). Then make sure the USB thingie is always plugged in and doesn't fail, because if it isn't present, pfsense doesn't even boot any more... so you can't even fix the rules or plug a new one in. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header. http://volker.top.geek.nz/ Please do not CC list postings to me. _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
