Folks, For the last 6 months or so, I have been working on a project to take OpenBSD 3.8 and create an appliance type interface for a Wireless Access Point. Before I get into the nitty gritty details, here is a little about the name. The name is derived from the combination of Open Source projects designed to facilitate the ideas that are put forth by the Amateur Radio Relay League High Speed Multi Media Task Force. ( http://www.arrl.org/hsmm ). This group plays an integral role in providing guidelines for creating Emergency Communications networks using Amateur Radio equipment from HF frequencies up through 5.8GHZ.
The goal of the project was to create a relatively small footprint AP that could be put on a compact flash, plug it in to a Soekris single board computer (no moving parts) to be deployed on rooftops and towers. For those of you that are familiar with m0n0wall this will look very similar. After speaking with Manuel Kasper it seemed to be somewhat easy to port the m0n0wall FreeBSD code base for this effort. Visit the web page ( http://www.openhsmm.org ) for some of the initial and planned features. Keep in mind that this is an ALPHA version, not all of the functionality you see works properly. It does currently function as a basic AP with WEP. 98% of the testing so far has been with the Winstom CM-9 miniPCI card. I would appreciate constructive feedback. If you are interested in contributing to the project let me know. If you see something that needs to be fixed please send me a diff. and Yes, there are plans in the very near future for migrating the kernel to 3.9. -- CIAO - Paul Pescitelli /************************************************** Unix Advocate and creator of OpenHSMM Wire Access Point OpenBSD appliance. www.openhsmm.org /*************************************************/
