2ESSID's
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Hi,
I am wondering if anyone knows of any way to generate 2 ESSID's with one antenna? Can pfSense handle this or do I have to buy an expensive antennae to do it for me? -
pfSense can't do this with a single card. However adding a second wireless card you can setup a second accesspoint interface. This is a limitation of the freebsd wireless driver afaik which doesn't support this yet.
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Do you think this could be an upgrade for future versions?
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If the driver will support it in the future we most likely will add it but there is nothing we can do so far.
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Just to note, I have played with 2 cards as separate AP's and I found that they both conflicted with each other. There was a suggestion that I try one on chan1 and the other on chan6 as these were not supposed to conflict as bad but I never got around to testing that. With 2 AP's running in the same box at the same time I can say I got several timeouts and noticeably slow browsing. I wanted this for a public/private setup but after testing it I wouldn't have placed in a production environment. Just my experiences
Jonathan
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Antennaplacement and cables are important in this scenario. Actually I know there are people using pfSense as wireless relaystations with 2 wireless nics (kind of repeater but with 2 seperate cards and routed). Check your hardwaresetup.