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[Imran K]

Hey dudes,

Speaking of slow lists, got samba running on my WRT54GL with DD-WRT and the SDCARD Hardware Mod.

Pretty cool.

Yet to find a real use for it (logfiles?)


What hardware do most of you guys deal with?

routerboard+routerOS
soekris/WRAP+monowall/pfsense
other?


Also, any good 802.11n / pre N cards with either promisc or 11a support?



Cheers,


I

[Robert Hart - Air-Stream Wireless]

Hi Imram,

We are using 8011b for client connection (still the best for
distance/speed ) and 802.11a for backbones as they can't be used in
multi-point applications requiring a bit of work to adjust ACK time-outs
http://www.air-stream.org/ACK_Timeouts but that do give up +1.2 to1.6M
Bytes/sec so well worth the effort :-)

As we use multiple wireless interfaces dedicated to each purpose,
consequently the boards we require multiple PCIs so a standard PC is
very popular or WRAP boards depending on the installation. Consequently
the main OS is FreeBSD with Zebra to run BGP for routing.  We find
FreeBSD support the wireless cards the best.

Nevertheless there are a few embed devices around using OpenWRT either
the Linksys WRT54s or the R100s we have one site that runs three R100s
and a WRAP connected together by a switch, so I guess you could call
this a Hybrid.

As for 802.11n we had two WRT300n routers donated by Linksys
http://www.air-stream.org.au/wrt300n_review .  It would seem 802.11n has
a lot of potential unfortunately there are not open source drivers
available, equally no bridged ethernet clients, so we have come to a
brick wall with that project.   Nevetheless we are planning to do some
outdoor distance tests as soon as a I find time to build some
directional prototype antennas and money for some pci cards which means
tests will be in MS or OSX as they are  only drivers  :-P

Cheers

Robert


Imran K wrote:

> Hey dudes,
>
> Speaking of slow lists, got samba running on my WRT54GL with DD-WRT
> and the SDCARD Hardware Mod.
>
> Pretty cool.
>
> Yet to find a real use for it (logfiles?)
>
>
> What hardware do most of you guys deal with?
>
> routerboard+routerOS
> soekris/WRAP+monowall/pfsense
> other?
>
>
> Also, any good 802.11n / pre N cards with either promisc or 11a support?
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>

[Brett Lymn]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 09:32:56AM +0930, Robert Hart - Air-Stream Wireless wrote:
>
> directional prototype antennas and money for some pci cards which means
> tests will be in MS or OSX as they are  only drivers  :-P
>

Well, you could try the NDIS wrappers in FreeBSD or NetBSD, see how
far you get with those...

--
Brett Lymn

[Robert Hart - Air-Stream Wireless]

I'm not really the person who does the coding side of things, but we do
have two very clever guys who have been working on the Atheros AR5008
chipset drivers as these are what we started with, they are saying there
not far away thou.  The Intel 4965AGN chipset  looks very interesting
that Benjamin has suggested, specially as they are much cheaper cards ~
$65au.

I'm mostly a network user, than any kind of developer/coder, and I'm sad
to admit a latecomer to FOSS systems and this has happened mainly due to
my association with Air-Stream.

Most I'm happest with a soldering iron in my hand, I have an electronic
engineering background and I did run an electronic business in NSW for
10 years, but know its a hobby, as I'm in Management these days. So the
Air-Stream project is one of my outlets, and so I help build customizing
stuff eg PCB, waterproof systems, cases, PSUs, antennas, masts, etc.  
But its good to have people with different skills, specially when
building a community wireless network.

If your in Adelaide we are participating in Software Freedom Day at
Mawson Lakes http://www.air-stream.org.au/sfd2007 and will have some
802.11n equipment running on the day and certainly some wireless
equipment running FreeBSD and OpenWRT.

Brett Lymn wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 09:32:56AM +0930, Robert Hart - Air-Stream Wireless wrote:
>  
>> directional prototype antennas and money for some pci cards which means
>> tests will be in MS or OSX as they are  only drivers  :-P
>>
>>    
>
> Well, you could try the NDIS wrappers in FreeBSD or NetBSD, see how
> far you get with those...
>
>