WDS with a FreeBSD access point

[Adrian Chadd]

Hi,

Are both freebsd APs?

It looks reasonably straightfoward. I really should just give this a
go at home on an extender AP and test the hell out of it.

So, for wifi traffic, you absolutely want the wifi VAPs in a bridge
group as the traffic between stations and APs is all layer-2. There's
no routing involved. If you want to route between the bridge0
interface and the rest of the system then please do so but do put the
STA and AP VAPs into the same bridge group.

(Those scripts do exactly that.)

Thanks, and good luck!



-a


On 2 April 2014 23:39, David Chisnall <theraven at theravensnest.org> wrote:
> On 3 Apr 2014, at 04:20, Ondra Knezour <knezour at weboutsourcing.cz> wrote:
>
>> There are some scripts in /usr/src/tools/tools/net80211/scripts - related are setup.wds setup.wdsmain and setup.wdsrelay. Also following message can bring in little more info http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2009-March/021559.html
>
> I found setup.wdsmain, which looks a bit like what I need.  It creates an extra bridging interface (not sure why I need this - some docs would be nice - or even if I need it, as I'm using pf to move traffic between my wired and wireless networks and I definitely don't want to do simple bridging from the WAN to the WLAN), but then runs /usr/local/bin/wlanwds - I've no idea which port this comes from...
>
> David
>