On 03/17/2013 07:47:43 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > Um, given these requirements, a physical switch would seem to be > optimal. (Of course this is the lazy way out, but > this way there's absolutely no danger of burning out > any precious brain cells from design-fatigue. ;-)
Note that the above reply is a bit snarky. If you want to avoid extra hardware there's surely a "best" way to do it. I'm not paying enough attention to think what it might be. Thinking out loud (my having forgotten your requirements) is to use a separate network for your access points. You could deliver them dhcp, etc. You could frob the soekris arp table so that the gateway IP address is reachable by all ports with access points plugged in. (Something avoided by bridging....?) Then your pf rules would filter by network. Of course you'd have to setup routing tables for the wireless networks and I can't remember if you're looking for handover to pass a roaming device from one to the next. Perhaps not the most general solution..... All the same, spending the time to engineer something sounds like it might not be cost effective, interesting as it may be to find a way to do it "right". Karl <k...@meme.com> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein