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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +title: "Field Report: WiFi AP on BPi-R3" |
| 3 | +author: troglobit |
| 4 | +date: 2026-02-27 10:00:00 +0100 |
| 5 | +categories: [showcase] |
| 6 | +tags: [boards, wifi, networking, firewall, wireguard] |
| 7 | +--- |
| 8 | + |
| 9 | +{: width="400" .right} |
| 10 | + |
| 11 | +WiFi access point support landed in Infix v26.01, and the engineer who |
| 12 | +spent six months making it happen — Mattias Walström — wasted no time |
| 13 | +putting it to the test. He wrote up [his experience][ml] of replacing |
| 14 | +his home network with a full Infix deployment on a [BPi-R3][bpi]. |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +His setup runs six SSIDs across 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz, each on its own |
| 17 | +isolated network: trusted devices, IoT (13+ smart home gadgets with DHCP |
| 18 | +reservations), guest, and untrusted. A [zone-based firewall][zbf] keeps |
| 19 | +everything separated and a WireGuard tunnel handles remote access. The |
| 20 | +MT7976C chipset supports up to 16 virtual access points per radio, so |
| 21 | +there's plenty of room to grow. |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | +All of it running on a €150 router board, managed through the same |
| 24 | +NETCONF/RESTCONF interfaces you'd use on data center gear. |
| 25 | + |
| 26 | +Read [Mattias' article][ml] for the full story, then grab a [BPi-R3][ali], |
| 27 | +[flash an image][flash], and have a look at the [WiFi documentation][docs]. |
| 28 | + |
| 29 | +--- |
| 30 | + |
| 31 | +[ml]: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/running-infix-banana-pi-r3-mattias-walstr%C3%B6m-lywcf |
| 32 | +[bpi]: /posts/banana-pi-r3/ |
| 33 | +[zbf]: /posts/zone-based-firewall/ |
| 34 | +[flash]: /posts/flashing-sdcard/ |
| 35 | +[docs]: https://kernelkit.org/infix/latest/ |
| 36 | +[ali]: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005827004033.html |
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