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On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 19:50 -1000, Jim Thompson wrote: > On May 4, 2005, at 2:15 PM, Carlos Rosário wrote: > > > In documentation Manuel Kasper says: > > > > "If you want to be really happy with your wireless, then by all means > > buy a real dedicated AP. hostap just never matches the performance > > and reliability (not even under Linux) of a *good* AP, and is only > > intended as a solution for people who absolutely need to do > > everything on one box." > > Note that many (perhaps most) *good* APs run linux now. > > > > > Well, i'm getting a couple of WRAP boards and Atheros CM9 mini-PCI > > cards to try an upgrade to several Dlink 900Ap+ in a Wireless > > Community project. > > Every board will have 2 CM9, one working in Access Point mode and the > > other one in Client Mode. > > > > Will m0n0wall be appropriate for this? > > well, we think so. :-) Bear in mind the plans to move back to freebsd 4.x for m0n0wall which will mean the loss of atheros support, hence why I'm sticking with 1.2b7 for a while as I'm using a ath device with hostap under m0n0wall. -- Simon Dick <simond at irrelevant dot org> |