From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 2 09:11:53 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B69CCC53 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2014 09:11:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from theravensnest.org (theraven.freebsd.your.org [216.14.102.27]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "theravensnest.org", Issuer "theravensnest.org" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6D9D3E57 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2014 09:11:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.100] (cpc14-cmbg15-2-0-cust307.5-4.cable.virginm.net [82.26.1.52]) (authenticated bits=0) by theravensnest.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id s329BhTE054230 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2014 09:11:45 GMT (envelope-from theraven@FreeBSD.org) From: David Chisnall Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: WDS with a FreeBSD access point Message-Id: Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 10:11:38 +0100 To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.2 \(1874\)) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1874) X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 09:11:53 -0000 Hello the wireless people, I have a machine that runs FreeBSD (10) as my AP, which works nicely but = unfortunately doesn't quite have the range to reach one of the rooms in = my flat. I would like to use a cheap off-the-shelf AP to extend the = range, but apparently using WDS requires all of the APs to know about = it. Does anyone know what I need to do to the FreeBSD box to make it talk to = the WDS relay / remote? David