On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 23:07, Vasilis Tsolis wrote:

> It is very important for many people when they make a wireless router
> for outdoor use to reduce the tx power of an wireless client.
I hope not for security reasons :)

> This happens by an hostap driver...
> I am almost sure that this not possible for now ,but what about the future?
> not in 4.x ( unless you write a patch voor the wi driver)

from man ifconfig in freebsd 5.3 BETA6 

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
txpower power
For IEEE 802.11 wireless interfaces, set the power used to trans-
mit frames.  The power argument is a unitless value in the range
0 to 100 that is interpreted by drivers to derive a device-spe-
cific value.  Out of range values are truncated.  Typically only
a few discreet power settings are available and the driver will
use the setting closest to the specified value.  Not all adaptors
support changing the transmit power.

^^^^^^^^^^^

since 5.3 might be the next stable relaese you need to rewrite the 4.9
driver for monowall and hack it into it. Or wait:
a. next 5.x stable release
b. monowall to actually use this release.

Marten




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