[ale] Buy your wifi routers now...

[James Sumners]

Set the wireless interface into AP mode and plug the wired interface into
an uplink port on my switch. Plus, you know, some iptables rules.

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Damon L. Chesser <damon at damtek.com> wrote:

> I am missing something, how are you going to use a NUC as your router?
> Dongles?
>
>
> On 09/02/2015 04:36 PM, James Sumners wrote:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Next-Unit-Computing-NUC5i3RYK/dp/B00S1ISFOQ
>
> Costs just about as much as a decent 802.11ac consumer router. As far as I
> can tell, the wireless chipset support "AP Mode" in Linux. I'd probably get
> a USB ethernet adapter to connect it to my external network, though. I'd
> use the on-board ethernet for my internal network.
>
> Yeah, I'm thinking this might just be done by the end of the year in my
> house. I'm liking this plan a lot. Plus, I'd actually be able to save my
> bandwidth logs instead of losing them every time my router reboots.
>
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 4:13 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Then maybe Arduino will get an 802.11ac shield at some point (already has
>> several b/g/n). Or maybe I'll skip all of that shenanigans and go straight
>> for a  <http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/overview.html>
>> http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/overview.html
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Solomon Peachy < <pizza at shaftnet.org>
>> pizza at shaftnet.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 02:08:33PM -0400, James Sumners wrote:
>>> > I was already thinking of building a router from a Raspberry Pi, and
>>> this
>>> > news just solidifies it. Hopefully there is an 802.11c card available
>>> for
>>> > it that will do monitor mode. If not, maybe soon?
>>>
>>> The RPi is a poor choice, because it only has a single USB port that's
>>> not much of a performer in its own right.  (All user visible ports plus
>>> the ethernet port are connected via an internal hub)
>>>
>>> (I tried to use a RPi as a hotspot for a camper, and the USB performance
>>>  was so bad the wifi cards kept locking up under even light loads..)
>>>
>>>  - Solomon
>>> --
>>> Solomon Peachy                         pizza at shaftnet dot org
>>> Delray Beach, FL                          ^^ (email/xmpp) ^^
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