On Saturday, July 09, 2011 12:48 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Christopher Chan wrote: >> On Thursday, July 07, 2011 11:53 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >>> Lamar Owen wrote: >>>> The Apple Airport in an Intel Mac is Broadcom; many Intel Dell's have the option of Broadcom, which is typically less expensive than the 3945 or similar Intel wireless chipset. My Dell Inspiron 640m came with a Broadcom card; my Precision M65 had an Intel 3945 but has a Broadcom now (for other various reasons that are beyond the scope of the CentOS list). >>>> >>>> The one AMD laptop I had that had PCIe wifi had an Atheros chipset..... but YMMV. >>> Intel, Broadcom, Ralink and Realtek chips are mostly used only for >>> Laptops. Any decent (professional) Wireless router will have Atheros >>> based radio. And the are excellent Atheros open source drivers. >> >> Professional Wireless Router? That knocked me off my seat :-D. 'Wireless >> router' has become associated in my mind with that device you put in >> homes. So what professional wireless routers are out there? I have >> Aerohive 340 access points over here (uses Atheros btw) but I cannot >> seem to remember whether it supported routing but it does support tying >> profiles to vlans and a host of other stuff. > > There are Wireless Access points (without routing capability) and only > one wireless radio, semi-routers with only one wireless radio but with > rudimentary routing and firewall/NAT support (most Ubiquity products) > and there are full fledged routers with one or multiple LAN and wireless > radios cards. > > In the last group, most used is Mikrotik hardware with their RouterOS > software that supports most of the routing protocols and extensive > firewall/NAT/mangle capabilities. My favorite is StarOS software that > runs on larger number of hardware platforms including regular PC's (as > does RouterOS). There are other software/OS's but those 2 are, in my > opinion, the best ones. > Both of them support *only* Atheros chipsets. > > And when I say routing, I mean RIP, OSPF, OLSR, BGP... Bah, those for are sissies. I know of one chap who manually maintained the routing tables for checkpoint firewalls in a full mesh configuration and who had over 20 sites in that particular vpn network (works for a global conglomerate). Yes, I would be a sissy if I ever had to deploy a multi-site vpn network/multi-site network. :-P > >>> From manufacturers, Winstron and Compex are most respected. This is >>> from 7 years of professional experience. >> >> Let's see if we win the obscure wireless product awards ;) > > I was refering to manufacturers of Atheros based radio cards, not > routers. Sorry is I have not stated that clearly. > OIC.