@provels said in Apple Mac Versions of AR9280/ar5bxb92? AR9380/ar5bxb1122:

Thanks a lot!

You're welcome - glad I could help!

Thanks guys, I'll give it a go, if the onboard wifi won't work I'll use a external access point in a client mode.

@steveits
Thanks, I might give those a shot. $30 on Amazon and free return if it won't work.

@johnpoz Agreed, I too hope IoT catch up soon on security related stuff. Many nice gadgets only have wifi, and as is, I don't feel entirely comfortable using that for IoT. Of course it can and imho should, be zoned in contained vlans, but just the fact your wifi is offering your network to anyone who (can) listen, is not comforting, but very convenient.
I've learned a lot on this exercize, enough to wanting to read more - WPA2 to WPA3 was indeed a big leap, and perhaps time for me to re-evaluate wifi for my purposes... :) (for now still excluding IoT)

Mmm, nothing there should have made any difference.

It may be. An external Ethernet connected device will definitely work and will give you better speeds.

It can work using a modem in the 2100 though and the hardware to do it is relatively cheap as a used device. It really depends how much time you can afford to spend on the project. I did it for fun so... 😉

Steve

Hi,

Did you eventually solve this? I am trying to do the same and gathering some information at the moment.

thanks in advance

I don't expect to see a gateway field on the LAN side config of a SOHO device like that.
Is that actually the LAN side?

Normally you can only set a gateway, and hence a default route, on the WAN. That means that when you use it as an AP like this is has no default route and hence cannot itself access anything outside it's own subnet. That also means it cannot reply to anything from outside it's own subnet so you should expect to not be able to ping it from OPT without an outbound NAT rule.

That should not prevent connected wifi clients connecting to OPT though since they are using it only as a layer 2 device.

Steve

i still couldnt figure out anything. so i factory reset. physically eth0 is wan. eth1 is LAN. a cable goes from eth1 to a dumb switch. this switch feeds everything, including the Eero. now i have internet on everything. im guessing somewhere the direction i followed for Bridging is bad or something.... so for now, i will ignore eth2 and eth3.

We may have strayed off-topic. 😉
But my first experience with any sort of computer network was Econet.

@terho said in iPhone occasionally disconnecting and reconnecting WLAN?:

SOLVED (partially): I studied the potential signal interference. I bought a Netspot software for analysing WLAN signals with my laptop and did find out that the 2.4 GHz signal level was breaking too often, at worst it was completely lost few times within a minute. 5 GHz was ok. Did not find any other transmitters causing interference. But, the access point system log was full of error messages and appearing unhealthy system. The next step was to review the log file with the manufacturer's support service. Eventually this unit was concluded as a faulty AP and they sent me a replacement (warranty period was valid). I now have a new unit in use and signal quality is ok in both bands.

But still, iPhone keeps on disconnecting, but not that frequently. After having googled much more, frequent disconnection seems to be a very common problem everywhere. I think that Apple should fix this, as all the obvious checks do not help (signal quality, distance to AP, router, firewall, DHCP lease time, interference, toggling iPhone Wifi on/off, ... while all other devices connect without problems).

I actually make a living deploying WiFi networks, and my experience tells me it is very unlikely to be the iPhone that's the culprit. However - right now there are rumours of disconnect issues if you are running the latest iOS16 - if that's the case I'm sure it'll be fixed very soon (if not already in 16.1).
Otherwise I would like to question your enterprise AP as well - what brand are we talking about here,?
Because I can tell you: fx. D-Links "enterprise APs" has nothing enterprise about it - it's still a dodgy AP, that at best works, but usually has "issues" that causes some vendor radios to drop every now and then.
See, WiFi is less than perfect - it's not always drivers that remedy problems. Sometimes new chipsets are released, that just does not work properly without firmware "hacks" on the AP side, to allow the chipset to still remain connected. Those continuing hacks and compatibilty fixes are what you buy, when you buy one of the big enterprise vendors AP products.

@patch said in WIFI Speed slow with protectli (pfsense) and Netgear R7000:

100Mb sound like a bad cable limit.

Yup, it sure looks like a bad link that's defaulted to 100M. Check for that first.

Steve

@wime

I have a single AP for me and my cat. However, I also have a 2nd SSID/VLAN for guests, which only allows access to the Internet. You might consider a separate SSID for your grandkids, so you can control access times, etc..

Seems to work as expected here:

[22.05-RC][root@6100-2.stevew.lan]/root: pciconf -lvb ath0 ath0@pci0:17:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x009a106b chip=0x0030168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Qualcomm Atheros' device = 'AR93xx Wireless Network Adapter' class = network bar [10] = type Memory, range 64, base 0x81600000, size 131072, enabled [22.05-RC][root@6100-2.stevew.lan]/root: ifconfig -vvm ath0_wlan0 ath0_wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 description: wifi0 ether e4:ce:8f:5b:73:e9 inet6 fe80::e6ce:8fff:fe5b:73e9%ath0_wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xd groups: wlan ssid test123 channel 13 (2472 MHz 11g ht/20) bssid e4:ce:8f:5b:73:e9 regdomain ETSI country GB indoor ecm authmode WPA2/802.11i -wps -tsn privacy MIXED deftxkey 2 AES-CCM 2:128-bit AES-CCM 3:128-bit powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 txpower 30 txpowmax 50.0 -dotd rtsthreshold 2346 fragthreshold 2346 bmiss 7 11a ucast NONE mgmt 6 Mb/s mcast 6 Mb/s maxretry 6 11b ucast NONE mgmt 1 Mb/s mcast 1 Mb/s maxretry 6 11g ucast NONE mgmt 1 Mb/s mcast 1 Mb/s maxretry 6 11na ucast NONE mgmt 6 Mb/s mcast 6 Mb/s maxretry 6 11ng ucast NONE mgmt 1 Mb/s mcast 1 Mb/s maxretry 6 scanvalid 60 -bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:11a rssi 7dBm rate 12 Mb/s roam:11b rssi 7dBm rate 1 Mb/s roam:11g rssi 7dBm rate 5 Mb/s roam:11na rssi 7dBm MCS 1 roam:11ng rssi 7dBm MCS 1 -pureg protmode OFF ht htcompat ampdu ampdulimit 64k ampdudensity 8 amsdu shortgi htprotmode RTSCTS -puren -smps -rifs stbc ldpc -uapsd -vht -vht40 -vht80 -vht160 -vht80p80 wme burst -dwds -hidessid -apbridge dtimperiod 1 doth -dfs inact bintval 100 AC_BE cwmin 4 cwmax 6 aifs 3 txopLimit 0 -acm ack cwmin 4 cwmax 10 aifs 3 txopLimit 0 -acm AC_BK cwmin 4 cwmax 10 aifs 7 txopLimit 0 -acm ack cwmin 4 cwmax 10 aifs 7 txopLimit 0 -acm AC_VI cwmin 3 cwmax 4 aifs 1 txopLimit 94 -acm ack cwmin 3 cwmax 4 aifs 2 txopLimit 94 -acm AC_VO cwmin 2 cwmax 3 aifs 1 txopLimit 47 -acm ack cwmin 2 cwmax 3 aifs 2 txopLimit 47 -acm parent interface: ath0 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11ng <hostap> status: running supported media: media MCS mode autoselect mediaopt hostap media MCS mode 11ng mediaopt hostap media autoselect mode 11ng mediaopt hostap media MCS mode 11na mediaopt hostap media autoselect mode 11na mediaopt hostap media DS/11Mbps mode autoselect mediaopt hostap media DS/5.5Mbps mode autoselect mediaopt hostap media DS/2Mbps mode autoselect mediaopt hostap media DS/1Mbps mode autoselect mediaopt hostap media OFDM/54Mbps mode autoselect mediaopt hostap media OFDM/48Mbps mode autoselect mediaopt hostap media OFDM/36Mbps mode autoselect mediaopt hostap media OFDM/24Mbps mode autoselect mediaopt hostap media OFDM/18Mbps mode autoselect mediaopt hostap media OFDM/12Mbps mode autoselect mediaopt hostap media OFDM/9Mbps mode autoselect mediaopt hostap media OFDM/6Mbps mode autoselect mediaopt hostap media OFDM/54Mbps mode 11g mediaopt hostap media OFDM/48Mbps mode 11g mediaopt hostap media OFDM/36Mbps mode 11g mediaopt hostap media OFDM/24Mbps mode 11g mediaopt hostap media OFDM/18Mbps mode 11g mediaopt hostap media OFDM/12Mbps mode 11g mediaopt hostap media OFDM/9Mbps mode 11g mediaopt hostap media OFDM/6Mbps mode 11g mediaopt hostap media DS/11Mbps mode 11g mediaopt hostap media DS/5.5Mbps mode 11g mediaopt hostap media DS/2Mbps mode 11g mediaopt hostap media DS/1Mbps mode 11g mediaopt hostap media autoselect mode 11g mediaopt hostap media DS/11Mbps mode 11b mediaopt hostap media DS/5.5Mbps mode 11b mediaopt hostap media DS/2Mbps mode 11b mediaopt hostap media DS/1Mbps mode 11b mediaopt hostap media autoselect mode 11b mediaopt hostap media OFDM/54Mbps mode 11a mediaopt hostap media OFDM/48Mbps mode 11a mediaopt hostap media OFDM/36Mbps mode 11a mediaopt hostap media OFDM/24Mbps mode 11a mediaopt hostap media OFDM/18Mbps mode 11a mediaopt hostap media OFDM/12Mbps mode 11a mediaopt hostap media OFDM/9Mbps mode 11a mediaopt hostap media OFDM/6Mbps mode 11a mediaopt hostap media autoselect mode 11a mediaopt hostap media autoselect mode autoselect mediaopt hostap nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> [22.05-RC][root@6100-2.stevew.lan]/root: ifconfig ath0_wlan0 list chan Channel 1 : 2412 MHz 11g ht Channel 48 : 5240 MHz 11a ht Channel 2 : 2417 MHz 11g ht Channel 52 : 5260* MHz 11a ht Channel 3 : 2422 MHz 11g ht Channel 56 : 5280* MHz 11a ht Channel 4 : 2427 MHz 11g ht Channel 60 : 5300* MHz 11a ht Channel 5 : 2432 MHz 11g ht Channel 64 : 5320* MHz 11a ht Channel 6 : 2437 MHz 11g ht Channel 100 : 5500* MHz 11a ht Channel 7 : 2442 MHz 11g ht Channel 104 : 5520* MHz 11a ht Channel 8 : 2447 MHz 11g ht Channel 108 : 5540* MHz 11a ht Channel 9 : 2452 MHz 11g ht Channel 112 : 5560* MHz 11a ht Channel 10 : 2457 MHz 11g ht Channel 116 : 5580* MHz 11a ht Channel 11 : 2462 MHz 11g ht Channel 120 : 5600* MHz 11a ht Channel 12 : 2467 MHz 11g ht Channel 124 : 5620* MHz 11a ht Channel 13 : 2472 MHz 11g ht Channel 128 : 5640* MHz 11a ht Channel 36 : 5180 MHz 11a ht Channel 132 : 5660* MHz 11a ht Channel 40 : 5200 MHz 11a ht Channel 136 : 5680* MHz 11a ht Channel 44 : 5220 MHz 11a ht Channel 140 : 5700* MHz 11a ht

Steve

If you assign the bridge itself ab LAN pfSense always considers it as UP which means services running on it are always active and that includes DHCP. In your current setup if you disconnect the LAN cable all wifi devices will stop receiving an IP address.
When you assign the bridge interface you get a firewall rules tab for it which means you can filter traffic from LAN and wifi with a single ruleset if you wish. You have to use those sysctls to move where filtering is applied though.

Steve

Hmm, well, if that's working for you I would stay with it.

@kewe
Have fun and good luck, should work out fine...
Looking forward to hear from your successfull implementation of your new hardware.👍

It doesn't look like there is a driver for that. The only PCI driver for Ralink I can see is ral(4) and that doesn't support that chip:
https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-src/blob/devel-12/sys/dev/ral/if_ral_pci.c#L104

Steve