Subj : WiFi AP
To   : Brian Rogers
From : Alexey Vissarionov
Date : Fri Sep 17 2021 19:20:20

Good ${greeting_time}, Brian!

17 Sep 2021 10:41:00, you wrote to Michiel van der Vlist:

 MvV>> The Raspberrys that I have seen have only only ethernet port. Do
 MvV>> the later models have at least two ethernet ports so that one can
 MvV>> make a WAN port and a LAN port?
 BR> I haven't seen any however you can turn one into a wifi access point
 BR> quit easily.

Yes - that's normally as easy as:

# cat /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
interface=wlan0
driver=nl80211
logger_syslog=-1
logger_syslog_level=2
logger_stdout=-1
logger_stdout_level=1
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
ssid=YetAnotherAP
country_code=JP
hw_mode=g
channel=10
beacon_int=100
dtim_period=2
max_num_sta=255
rts_threshold=-1
fragm_threshold=-1
macaddr_acl=0
auth_algs=1
ignore_broadcast_ssid=0
wmm_enabled=0
eapol_key_index_workaround=0
eap_server=0
wpa=2
wpa_passphrase=****************
wpa_pairwise=CCMP
wps_state=0

Also, the `head -c12 /dev/urandom | openssl base64` command would give you a really good passphrase.


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