Re: Wireless access points: consumer, commercial, or DIY?

Sam Leffler <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Organization FreeBSD Project
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Mark Bennett wrote:
>> I'm currently running X-Wrt which is the OpenWrt code base with a 
>> better web interface and bug fixes.
>
> You might also look at dd-wrt here:
>
> http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
>
> I purchased and flashed a Linksys WRT54g Version 8 device, and used it
> at home for a few weeks with zero problems.  I'm planning to install it
> for a commercial client.  I became frustrated with the feature set on
> reasonably priced APs (try finding one that you can bridge to another AP
> securely, and good luck to you), as well as unreliable performance.
> Short of going to a Cisco or some other commercial level product, this
> seemed to be the best route.  dd-wrt has a very full feature set.
>
> Some of the hardware mentioned on the dd-wrt site is commercial grade,
> look at Ubiquti among others.  Good luck,
FreeBSD HEAD is the only open source system that does Dynamic WDS 
(DWDS).  If you want to "bridge to another AP securely" it is the really 
the only thing to use.

    Sam

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