Hey folks, perhaps my google foo isn't up to snuff today. I've been looking for articles that help me understand exactly how to setup hostapd on gentoo using systemd, and I'm not finding anything. I looked all over the Gentoo Wiki and found nothing that mentioned both hostapd and systemd. I found pages that mention one or the other, but they seem to contradict each other's setup, making it impossible to use both pages at once. If possible, I'd really like to use netifrc as well. But I can't tell for sure if that's possible or if it's only for OpenRC setups. The Gentoo AMD64 walkthrough specifically states that they assume you're using OpenRC vs. systemd. I'd consider just using OpenRC, but I want this setup to be as future proof as possible and since it looks like everyone is moving towards systemd, I'd prefer to stick with that. This is especially true as all the walkthroughs for luks that I've encountered have entailed using systemd and /etc/crypttab and I can't find any that explain how to use luks with OpenRC, although I'm sure it's possible. And yes, I've looked. Again, my google skills must not be up to par today.
I've no idea where else to look. So perhaps someone here can point me in the right direction. I'm trying to create a wireless hotspot (that can work in managed mode, obviously, not just ad-hoc) that gets called with systemd under Gentoo. The desired network setup would be like this: eth0 - Public IP - Protected by iptables firewall that uses NAT to rewrite requests from eth1 or wlan0 using eth0's IP eth1 - Private IP (192.168.0.1 let's say) wlan0 - Private IP (say 192.168.1.1) The iptables rules are in place and seem to work fine for eth0 & eth1. Both eth1 and wlan0 are serviced by dhcpd. I've got dhcpd running and serving addresses to those connected to eth1 just fine. And from what I can tell it should serve addresses to wlan0 connected nodes, but I can't tell until I can get hostapd up and running so that nodes can associate with the wireless nic in the first place. I want the nodes to be wpa2 protected, of course, and I have wpa_supplicant installed. But all the gentoo docs seem to be about using wpa_supplicant to connect to an existing AP, not to have the box serve as an AP itself (and there are reasons for this that I'm not getting into at the moment, but I do have them). They mention hostapd, but never give any config details that I can see. Any suggestions would be most welcome. I'm getting ready to pull my hair out. Help!? /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
