Wireless (802.11) question

stan stanb at panix.com
Mon Oct 27 13:19:38 PST 2003


On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 08:42:54PM +0000, Andrew Humphries wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 20:31, stan wrote:
> 
> > I'm about to embark on a wireless experiemnt, having never dealt with this
> > technology before.
> > 
> > So, I've got a failry basic question. My plan was to put a wireless card in
> > a machine running FreeBSD, and use this machine as a gateway from an
> > existing network to a new subnet that would only exist in the wireless
> > world.
> > 
> > Some people are telling me that I can't do that. They are saying I need an
> > "access point" device for all the various devices to communicate to.
> > 
> > Am I on the wrong track here?
> 
> 
> You can turn a FreeBSD box into a wireless access point:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html
> 
> Hope that helps, mate.
> 
It helps _a lot_.

Thak you!
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