On Monday 22 December 2008 19:05:32 Mario Lobo wrote: > On Monday 22 December 2008 18:49:44 Nerius Landys wrote: > > I have a PC with FreeBSD set up as a router (NAT). The PC has several > > network cards and I'm grouping the internal-facing network cards as a > > bridge (promiscuous mode for the interfaces). Everything works well. > > > > Now I'd like to extend my wired network to include wireless. I really > > have no experience with wireless networks. I have a couple of > > computers that are wireless-ready (a laptop and a Playstation 3 that I > > won in a raffle). Is it possible to somehow add some hardware to my > > FreeBSD router PC to make it into a wireless router? What kind of > > hardware would I install? What is it called? The PC only has PCI > > slots, can you recommend a brand and model of "wireless server > > equiptment" if such a thing exists? Would a normal wireless card > > suffice? What model should I get? I would prefer to set up static > > internal IPs for my wireless network at home, would this be possible? > > Or is DHCP the way to go (I hesitate at the thought of configuring a > > DHCP server). > > > > Another way to go is to hook up a standalone wireless router appliance > > to my FreeBSD machine's network interface (one of the interfaces). I > > already have such a device, I think it's made by Linksys. But then, I > > would be NAT'ing both through the FreeBSD machine and through the > > wireless router. So it would be a double-NAT so to speak. Is there > > anything wrong with that approach? > > > > So in a nutshell, I have a wired FreeBSD router with multiple ethernet > > jacks at home, and I want to extend it to include wireless network. > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > > If you already have a wireless router, all you have to do is to turn it > into an access point to your internal lan. Disable its DHCP server, assign > a free LAN IP to the router LAN ethernet,plug one of its LAN ports into > your switch and assign free LAN IPs to the wireless cards of your LAN > machines. > > That's what I did here at home and works like a charm. > > If you need a DHCP server you have to set it up on the FreeBSD router.
Sorry for replying to myself but it needed a correction. You CAN use the wireless router as your DHCP server!. Just assign a range from your LAN's IPs. The WAN port won't matter. It won't be used. -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99,7% winedows FREE) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"