The Book of PF

Setting Up a Simple Wireless Network

To start building our first wireless network, it makes sense to use the basic gateway configuration from the previous chapter as our starting point. In your network design, it is likely that the wireless network is not directly attached to the Internet at large, but the wireless network will require a gateway of some sort. For that reason, it makes sense to reuse the working gateway setup for this wireless access point with some minor modifications we introduce over the next few paragraphs. After all, it is more convenient than starting a new configuration from scratch.

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We are in infrastructure-building mode here, and we will be setting up the access point first. If you prefer to look at the client side ...