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Old 27th April 2009
geekswordsman geekswordsman is offline
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What's funny is that I've only ever used FreeBSD as a RAID server for some file storage. I've always used OpenBSD for my routing and firewalls.

I've typically found that the general idea of setting something up is pretty much the same across *nix's, with the main differences being
a) where the file is stored (/etc, /etc/hostapd, etc)
and b) some slight changes in command name (sfdisk or fdisk) and parameters.
Obviously I was very wrong in this case!

I've done WEP configuration only once before, and it was years ago, and I can't honestly remember whether it was on FreeBSD or OpenBSD. Since I was more than likely just toying around for geekpoints, and considering my confusion now, I'm guessing it was on FreeBSD.

It really never occured to me that OpenBSD would include the encryption in the kernel - it makes sense to do so, and I'm really glad that they did. Hopefully when I get a chance to toy around again tonight with the -current v4.5 I d/led and installed yesterday I'll be able to get this thing working with no problems.

At the very least, WEP encryption for the moment would be nice, just to let me know that I'm on the right track!
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