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      Seth
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      I believe you'll loose WDS with pfSense.

      –Seth

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        dotdash
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        The change was needed for the Alix to be able to handle certain high-power radios. I'm not sure exactly how powerful a radio would cause problems- >200mW? >500mW?
        Here is a post from when this fix first came out: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,8877.0.html

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          Slam
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          Thanks a lot guys, I think Ill just order a pair.

          Seth: Ya I know, no wds support in fbsd, but Im going to play around and see if I can achieve similar thing in pfsense, possibly <5GHZ>radio:a -WAN> <lan -="" radio:b<2.4ghz="">then bridge lan 2 wan, I think Ive seen someone post something here about doing it this way.

          Cheers

          Slam</lan>

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            Slam
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            Ive been told they dont come with DB9 serial port, but if i solder on, it should work ok,

            thanks dotdash, ill look in to that further.

            cheers guys

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            • dotdashD
              dotdash
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              @Slam:

              Ive been told they dont come with DB9 serial port, but if i solder on, it should work ok,

              What? Unless they were a custom run with the serial port specifically deleted, there should be a serial port. http://www.pcengines.ch/alix2c2.htm

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                Slam
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                Yeah, they come in these cases with only one usb port showing and 2x lan, heres the pic of the board itself, db9 missing.

                slam

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                  Seth
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                  Thought you may be interested in the following unit
                  http://www.engeniustech.com/datacom/products/details.aspx?id=244

                  NetGate
                  http://www.netgate.com/product_info.php?cPath=32&products_id=712

                  Cheaper vendor
                  http://www.microcom.us/eap3660.html

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                    Slam
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                    Thanks Seth, Ill check them out further, I noticed the EOR7550, very nice peice of kit and ideal with 2 radios.

                    Cheers

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                      Slam
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                      Well I ended up getting 3 of these, m0n0 and ddwrt boot up fine, I installed pf 2.0 on a spare pc, backed up config.xml, edited interfaces to relate to the alix's (vr0 & vr1) then i fed it back in the spare machine with the restore function, it rebooted and I powered off the computer when it was doing POST, swapped over the cf card to the alix and….didnt work  :D

                      I must of missed something but Ill give it a go again later, as a last resort Ill buy a db9 port!

                      By the way, the person I bought this off has a shit load of old WRAP's that he's selling for peanuts, but even more alix c2c's

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                        dotdash
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                        Try a newer 1.2.3 embedded snapshot, the default interfaces changed to vr0 and vr1 a while back.

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                          Slam
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                          Thanks for the heads up, Ill give the new 1.2.3 nanobsd go.

                          Slam

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                            dotdash
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                            I've just been using the stock embedded ones so far. http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD_RELENG_7_2/pfSense_RELENG_1_2/embedded/

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                              Slam
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                              Thanks for the link, the latest snapshot (pfSense-1.2.3-20090615-1722.img.gz) worked great for me.

                              Ill eventually have to get a serial port attached for bios updates, but atleast I can play with it for the time being!

                              Cheers

                              Slam

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