Hotspot Wi. Fi Access Point. When I was thinking of buying Raspberry Pi few months ago, I was also about to buy 3. G routerAP. When I learned what RPi is, and I saw people trying to make AP out of it, I knew where to place my money I know Ive chosen right RPi as AP gives you enormous number of possibilities wireless streaming of cartoons to your tablet when youre in the car. Your wife if you have one already in the same time can watch Desperate Housewives and you can focus on pleasure from driving. I hope youre interested already so lets do it. Note this tutorial assumes that your RPi already detects your Wi. Fi dongle. If you need to install it, please check our other tutorial. Please make sure your Wi. Fi dongle supports AP mode. This tutorial and script was tested with TP LINK WN7. N based on RTL8. 18. CUS chipset. I know there have been many tutorials on how to do this, but I believe there is none that would be a complete guide for total newbie. I had to compile information from few tutorials to set everything right. Lets go step by step and I will try to explain what and why you need to set up. A hedge is an investment position intended to offset potential losses or gains that may be incurred by a companion investment. In simple language, a hedge is used to. Maverick writes. Do you have UPNP turned on The traffic has likely found you through port scanning andor google searches. What do you mean by thisThere will be surprise at the end of article so so not miss anything Before well go to WHAT, I will try to explain WHY. What AP needs to be capable of to be AP 1. Inform devices about AP existence Broadcast SSID or at least allow clients to connect. Authenticate client. Assign IP to the client devices. Hack Router Port 5300' title='Hack Router Port 5300' />Route packages to the output network and the other way around. In order to handle all of this, RPi needs the following tools hostapd Host Access. Point Daemon will take care of 1. WPA authorization for 2. Lets install these tools. First well take care of configuration of AP daemon and its security we do it in etchostapdhostapd. NOTE If you copy paste hostapd. Arnold. interfacewlan. AP mode. ssidYourAPSSID your AP SSID. Wi. Fi channel used by AP. WPA and WPA2 configuration. MAC address allowdeny list. IEEE 8. 02. 1. 1. AP will broadcast SSID. WPA algorithm used WPA2 in this case. AP password. wpakeymgmtWPA PSK WPA key mangement type. TKIP encription algorithm. CCMP encription algorithm. Hardware configuration. Wi. Fi dongle chipset. Whether IEEE 8. 02. HT is enabled. devicenameRTL8. CU User friendly description of device optional. Realtek Manufacturer name optional. WPS RF Bands a 5. G, b 2. 4. G, g 2. G, ag dual band1. AP modessidYourAPSSID  your AP SSIDchannel1          Wi. Fi channel used by AP WPA and WPA2 configurationmacaddracl0      indicates that you do not use MAC address allowdeny listauthalgs1        indicates algorithm specified by IEEE 8. AP will broadcast SSIDWPA settingswpa2              WPA algorithm used WPA2 in this casewpapassphrasemysecretpassAP passwordwpakeymgmtWPA PSKWPA key mangement typewpapairwiseTKIPencription algorithmrsnpairwiseCCMPencription algorithmHardware configurationdriverrtl. Wi. Fi dongle chipset                      in majority of cases it will be drivernl. Whether IEEE 8. 02. HT is enableddevicenameRTL8. CUUser friendly description of device optionalmanufacturerRealtek  Manufacturer name optionalhwmodeg             WPS RF Bands a 5. G, b 2. 4. G, g 2. G, ag dual bandNow we need to set up etchostapdhostapd. We do it in etcdefaulthostapd. Put the following line there. DAEMONCONFetchostapdhostapd. DAEMONCONFetchostapdhostapd. OK, perfect. Now lets configure the network settings for clients connecting to AP. We do it in etcdhcpdhcpd. DDNS disabled. default lease time 8. IP lease time valid for a day. IP lease time valid for a day. AP Subnet defintion. Range of IP addresses available for clients. DNS IP in my case, my router is workign as DNS. IP. ddns update style none   DDNS disableddefault lease time. Andromede 5 Crack. IP lease time valid for a daymax lease time. IP lease time valid for a daysubnet. AP Subnet defintion  range. Range of IP addresses available for clients   option domain name servers. DNS IP in my case, my router is workign as DNS  option domain namehome     optional domain name  option routers  1. IPAgain we need to make sure that DHCP server uses this configuration. In etcdefaultisc dhcp server put the following lines. DHCPDCONFetcdhcpdhcpd. INTERFACESwlan. DHCPDCONFetcdhcpdhcpd. INTERFACESwlan. The last line indicates network interface that will be serving DHCP requests. Were almost done. Lets configure wlan. IP adress the same as router IP in dhcpd. We do it in etcnetworkinterfaces. The last line will set routing rules after restart. Lets turn on packet forwarding in etcsysctl. We will configure routing now by executing assuming eth. WAN interface. sudo iptables t nat A POSTROUTING o eth. MASQUERADE. sudo iptables A FORWARD i eth. RELATED,ESTABLISHED j ACCEPT. A FORWARD i wlan. ACCEPT sudo iptables tnat APOSTROUTING oeth. MASQUERADEsudo iptables AFORWARD ieth. RELATED,ESTABLISHED j. ACCEPTsudo iptables AFORWARD iwlan. ACCEPT  and lets save these setting in a file. Because I had bloody RTL8. CUS chipset I had to replace original hostapd with the one prepared for my chipset. In order to start AP on boot run the following commands. We are done Now restart your RPi There is much easier way to do all of this Use our configuration script and have AP set up in 2 minutesIf something does not work, please check if there are any duplicate entries in etcnetworkinterfaces if true, remove them and check again. 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