Reliable PCI wifi cards, and layer 7 filtering

[Peter Lavee]

2011/2/10 Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd at jdc.parodius.com>
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> I plan on using pf for the NAT and firewall layer.  ipfw will not be
> used (I have long since moved away from it).  I've got solutions for
> everything except two items:
>
> 1) Wireless hardware support
>   - What consumer PCI cards are known to be reliable and have good
>     support on FreeBSD?
>
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I' suggest to use PCI-mPCI adaptor and Wistron Neweb Atheros based cards. It
is good for an AP.
Use together with FreeBSD 8.1 or later.

2) Layer 7 filtering
>
>
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I suppose you can use pf+squid as transparent filtering proxy ?

I believe not much changed since that post:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-pf/2005-August/001450.html


Item #2 above seems to be the kicker.  Is there anything in the works
> regarding such a capability?  I'd be more than happy to test out code or
> whatever.
>
> //batcilla