RE: Wireless AP FreeBSD 7.0
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sam Fourman Jr. Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 12:08 PM To: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Wireless AP FreeBSD 7.0 Hello, my question is Does FreeBSD 7.0 Have ALTQ and pf enabled by default? or do Ihave to compile that support in the kernel Here is the HOWTO I am following to setup a Small office Samba File Server / Wireless AP http://tun0.net/ascii/config/freebsd_access_point/howtoforge-freeb sd_wireless.html My only comment here is I would advise that you simply buy a commercial hardware access point as your wireless transmitter rather than a PCI or other card in a FreeBSD server. You can mount the transmitter and it's antenna on the ceiling, in the very best spot for broadcasting a radio signal to cover the entire area you want covered, and you will get maximum radiated power when the antenna you use is next to the access point, and has the shortest possible connecting cable to the access point itself. You then run ethernet from this to the server itself. More importantly, wireless is baloney networking, insofar as it is not reliable as wired ethernet cables. Your going to have disconnections, period. Espically when people come in with laptops with embedded antennas. If you combine the AP and the Samba server they are surely going to blame the server long before their crappy wireless cards in their peecees, and you don't want to tarnish FreeBSD and Samba with a bad rap. If you have a separate hardware AP it's a lot easier to convince them that the problem is inherent in the wireless networking itself, and has nothing to do with the server, when you can point to a separate box. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wireless AP FreeBSD 7.0
you don't want to tarnish FreeBSD and Samba with a bad rap. If you have a separate hardware AP it's a lot easier to convince them that the problem is inherent in the wireless networking itself, and has nothing to do with the server, when you can point to a separate box. Ted Ted, I very much agree with you, I just don't have much of a choice in the matter I am a consultant (New to BSD's) and the client has a Ralink RT2661 MIMO PCI card he has 5 wired computers via a linksys gigabit switch and 1 notebook(with no wired nic) Thank you all for your help. This list is Great Sam Fourman Jr. Fourman Networks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Wireless AP FreeBSD 7.0
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sam Fourman Jr. Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 12:02 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Wireless AP FreeBSD 7.0 you don't want to tarnish FreeBSD and Samba with a bad rap. If you have a separate hardware AP it's a lot easier to convince them that the problem is inherent in the wireless networking itself, and has nothing to do with the server, when you can point to a separate box. Ted Ted, I very much agree with you, I just don't have much of a choice in the matter I am a consultant (New to BSD's) and the client has a Ralink RT2661 MIMO PCI card he has 5 wired computers via a linksys gigabit switch and 1 notebook(with no wired nic) It will cost your client more in labor to have you build this than buying a $40 access point. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wireless AP FreeBSD 7.0
On Sunday 16 March 2008 21:07:53 Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: my question is Does FreeBSD 7.0 Have ALTQ and pf enabled by default? or do Ihave to compile that support in the kernel pf, yes. Altq, not on 6.x, don't know if that's changed and can't check my 7.x system atm. See man altq when in doubt. Here is the HOWTO I am following to setup a Small office Samba File Server / Wireless AP http://tun0.net/ascii/config/freebsd_access_point/howtoforge-freebsd_wirele ss.html if anyone knows of a more current HOWTO please let me know Hmm, it's quite outdated, but most things will work. I don't see the reason for using pfsync on a small home network with only 1 gateway to the net, so you can leave that out. You don't need bind9 port, cause FreeBSD has bind 9 in base for quite a while. Wlan layers will be loaded automically, when a driver is loaded that needs them, so no need for them to be loaded in loader.conf. The table in the pf config has no name, not very good practice and not sure if that'll work. The pf config also doesn't define any queues, so compiling in altq isn't necessary with the config given there. Before you do anything, make sure the driver for your wireless card supports: - hostap - apbridge You can check this with ifconfig -v on the interface name, i.e.: ath0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet 192.168.100.1 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.100.255 inet 192.168.100.51 netmask 0x broadcast 192.168.100.51 ether 00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g hostap ^^ status: associated ssid MYSSID channel 1 (2412) bssid 00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 wepkey 1:104-bit powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 txpowmax 34 txpower 63 rtsthreshold 2346 mcastrate 1 fragthreshold 2346 bmiss 7 -pureg protmode CTS -wme burst ssid SHOW apbridge dtimperiod 1 bintval 100 -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wireless AP FreeBSD 7.0
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 04:07:53PM -0400, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: Hello, my question is Does FreeBSD 7.0 Have ALTQ and pf enabled by default? or do I have to compile that support in the kernel You'll have to compile a kernel for ALTQ support. But pf is available as a module for the GENERIC kernel. Here is the HOWTO I am following to setup a Small office Samba File Server / Wireless AP http://tun0.net/ascii/config/freebsd_access_point/howtoforge-freebsd_wireless.html if anyone knows of a more current HOWTO please let me know It looks pretty current to me. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpZvKfOQiWRu.pgp Description: PGP signature
