On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 7:59 AM Peter N. M. Hansteen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 1/24/19 11:55 PM, John Page wrote: > > I decided on installing OpenBSD 6.4 on a PC Engines apu4. I > > had previously been using an Asus RT-86U as both my router and wireless > > access point. > > OpenBSD's newer-wifi protocol support unfortunately lags what is > available in various commercial products. > > For that reason, in similar environments to what you describe I've tried > to get hold of APs with good radios and support for all the protocol > variants, then disabled all functionality on the access points > themselves other than the access point functionality, in some cases down > to even letting the things get the IP address for their Ethernet > interface from the OpenBSD dhcpd. > > With 'dumb' access points little more than Ethernet interfaces > themselves, you get to control how things work from the sane OpenBSD > environment. > I second this approach as working quite well, and is almost as easy to manage as HostAP from within OpenBSD. I have my commercial AP configured to bridge each SSID/network onto a different VLAN. My OpenBSD router can then process each VLAN in a way appropriate to their purpose (family, guests, streaming appliances, etc). --david
