PfSense Wireless Access Point Use Setup
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I have been checking the web whether pfsense supports wireless NICs and wireless usb devices. And I found even a supported device list. Most of them are ralink chips, so I got an old one that supports wireless n standard and is listed.
Inserting the usb went well, even dmesg shows me that pfsense detected the device and gave it a device node run0 which is a good sign.
Going to the web interface and in the interfaces section of pfsense run0 is being listed. Only when I start setting up a wpa2 hotspot with the usb device and hit the apply button, the terminal dumps lots of output for like 10 seconds the restarts. When booting again it reaches to the point where it detects the usb device and wants to create the device node, then… the same thing over! Lots of dumping then it restarts. This cycle keeps on repeating till I take out the usb stick.
When pluging out the usb stick pfsense boots normaly. When logging into the webinterface, pfsense tells me that it has to report a critical error.
Now, it is easy to start to setup a wifi hotspot with another dumb router but I would like to keep everything central, isn't there a safe way how to setup a usb wlan device?? -
What are you doing for the static nats? I sure hope your not just setting his IP to use all ports static? That sort of config is borked on a device that does napt for other devices.
What if client asks for say port xyz, and that has already been used by another client in a napt connection?
