Re: captive portal recommendation

2015-05-13 Thread Peter Lai
I've always hacked up NetReg (http://netreg.sourceforge.net/) to do this (it's written in perl). It lets you authenticate against ldap and you should be able to hack in having registrations autoexpire (it may already support that, I don't remember). You will have to setup dhcpd and unbind on your

enabling HT mode on ath 938x and WPA question

2014-08-22 Thread Peter Lai
What is the correct way to invoke HT (ng) mode on 938x cards? I have a TP LINK WDN4800, and it seems to require 2 invocations of ifconfig mode 11g to put it into ng mode. The first invocation sets it to 11g then the second one turns on 11ng/HT40+ (according to the output of ifconfig). It seems

How do I ALTQ hostap interface?

2014-08-21 Thread Peter Lai
How do I ALTQ my wireless (hostap mode) interface in 10.0-R? If I try to add a queue to wlan0, pf complains that wlan0 has no ALTQ support (even though it is an ath(4) interface and ath(4) is supposed to be supported by ALTQ). ALTQ is already setup and working with my wired ethernet over em(4).

Re: How do I ALTQ hostap interface?

2014-08-21 Thread Peter Lai
it for drivers with if_transmit() and so far it's been crickets/silence. -a On 21 August 2014 08:53, Peter Lai cowb...@gmail.com wrote: Does 9-STABLE support ath(4) and ALTQ? thanks On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: Hi, ath(4) now uses if_transmit

recommended 802.11n adapter to buy as AP on 10.0-R

2014-08-12 Thread Peter Lai
I'm looking to get a new wifi adapter which will be plugged into an Atom D2550 board, so it can be either pci-e x1 or usb3. The adapter needs to run as a single access point to support phones and tablets (iphone 4S only does n at 2.4ghz though). The box is running FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p7 amd64.