On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 12:15:34PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 03/24/2021 10:40 AM, Reco wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 10:34:53AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I have two laptops with clean installs of Buster. During installation > > > server software was installed on *ONE* of them. Communication will be > > > via WiFi. Any specific suggestions for reading? > > > > hostapd, dhcpd, bind (named). Last two can be replaced with dnsmasq. > > References to man pages is premature. > Thought my phrasing would exclude them ;{
It definitely did not, at least for me :) I mean, you asked for some keywords, I gave you them. > What I was looking for would be an overview significantly higher level > that those low level functions. Ok. Then I'd start with [1] and [2]. Reco [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hostapd [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/software_access_point