Re: [m0n0wall] OpenBSD Packet Filter in m0n0wall?

From:	Jim Thompson <jim at netgate dot com>
To:	Frederick Page <fpage at thebetteros dot oche dot de>
Cc:	m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
Subject:	Re: [m0n0wall] OpenBSD Packet Filter in m0n0wall?
Date:	Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:15:13 -1000

Frederick Page wrote:

>Hallo Jim,
>
>Jim Thompson schrieb am 29. March 2005:
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>>I have plans to 'port' m0n0wall (or something a whole lot like it) to
>>NetBSD once I get the wireless stuff straightened out.
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>I remember reading something on the m0n0wall site, that it was never
>meant for the wireless stuff, that one better use an AP and connect it
>to a spare NIC of the m0n0wall box. I did exactly that and have no
>problems. Why people MUST have their WLAN on m0n0wall is beyond me.
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There are plenty of reasons to have 'control' over your 802.11 NICs.

m0n0 has (possibly had) a problem with power-save clients under the 
FreeBSD 4.11-based
releases.  I believe that this was the 'source' or 'driver' of the comment.