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Turning a mini-pc into a WiFi access point
(lemmy.world)
After a hardware upgrade I ended up with a spare mini pc. Noticed these two icons and thought I might be able to use it as a WiFi access point with VLANs using OPNsense.
Is that possible? If so, what do I even need to buy to plug into there?
I don't need it to do any fancy dhcp, dns or firewall stuff, I just need a WiFi access point with support for VLANs.
Install fresh tomato to this and you'll get a much better AP with very good firewall and QOS and traffic inspection. Also good SNMP for monitoring
https://www.ebay.com/itm/256808892926
https://www.freshtomato.org/
I already have an opnsense router as firewall, so I don't really need that part. Was just looking to add a WiFi access point.
Haven't heard of freshtomato before but this seems like a nice option. I'll look into it, thx for the suggestion!
Freshtomato is very out of date. I would highly recommend against it.
What would you suggest instead?
OpenWRT
Thanks for the suggestion
Freshtomato is not out of date. The last stable release was december of 2024 And the github repos are being actively updated as well.
Perhaps you are confusing freshtomato with some of it's predecessors, like tomato or advancedtomato, which are no longer currently maintained.
As for openwrt instead, that doesn't support broadcom wifi chips, whereas freshtomato does.
What's the kernel version? Last I heard they were shipping an ancient kernel that was EOL.