WDS / Repeater support?

[JoaoBR]

On Thursday 05 October 2006 23:23, you wrote:
> It's a very interesting question IMHO. If I had to try making FreeBSD being
> a Wireless Repeater, I would first try to install two PCI Wi-Fi cards in it
> and applied if_bridge to them, then checked if it works. But I had no
> chance to try it yet. I would like to hear right answer on this question.

If you use on both cards adhoc mode it should actually work but if you mean 
one as client of an Ap and the other as hostap it does not bridge the WL 
clients through

I put three cards in each repeater
one as hostap with IP acting as GW for the conected WL clientes
the other two as adhoc
so I route IP subnets from point to point
probably a better solution since I get less broadcast and arp-spoofing-risk is 
low since I have small subnets, also the performance is extremly good even 
behind several repeaters 

If you have on the gateway a WL card and adhoc connection to another box you 
can run hostap and if_bridge with a second card and works fine but as 
repeater no way actually.

I would like to see adhoc p2mp mode so I could have an adhoc base station and 
could connect several accesspoints (configuring bssid of each of them at the 
base station) with one adhoc and one hostap card running if_bridge

-- 

João







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