On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 11:17:31AM +0000, Vilnius wrote: > Dear OpenBSD Community, > > > I hope you are all doing well. > > I'm thinking about building OBSD based home router with wifi access > point, but I'm not sure which card I should pickup which would provide > best compatibility with OBSD. I'm looking with dual band support which > most importantly supports both 2.4/5ghz and also has support for AP > and has no issues with OBSD itself. > > Does this thing exist or doing wifi AP on OBSD is not really > recommended like some google searches suggest ? This is home based > setup. > > Thanks >
As has been said before on more than one occasion, you'd be much better off using a separate non-OpenBSD access point. You get better WiFi performance, more recent 802.11* protocols (AFAICT there is no support for 802.11ax yet), sometimes the router's location isn't the most appropriate for the AP, etc. I tried using an OpenBSD box as a wifi router, but performance was poor, and its was hard to know whether it was the antennas, the box's location, the card's tx power, etc. I then repurposed my ISP's wifi router as an AP using a separate vlan, added some block rules on the router's pf.conf to keep it from "calling home" and never looked back. --
