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New post, push Mattias' nice LinkedIn post :-)
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
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title: "Field Report: WiFi AP on BPi-R3"
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author: troglobit
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date: 2026-02-27 10:00:00 +0100
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categories: [showcase]
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tags: [boards, wifi, networking, firewall, wireguard]
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![Banana Pi BPi-R3](/assets/img/spider-on-wall.jpeg){: width="400" .right}
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WiFi access point support landed in Infix v26.01, and the engineer who
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spent six months making it happen — Mattias Walström — wasted no time
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putting it to the test. He wrote up [his experience][ml] of replacing
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his home network with a full Infix deployment on a [BPi-R3][bpi].
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His setup runs six SSIDs across 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz, each on its own
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isolated network: trusted devices, IoT (13+ smart home gadgets with DHCP
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reservations), guest, and untrusted. A [zone-based firewall][zbf] keeps
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everything separated and a WireGuard tunnel handles remote access. The
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MT7976C chipset supports up to 16 virtual access points per radio, so
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there's plenty of room to grow.
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All of it running on a €150 router board, managed through the same
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NETCONF/RESTCONF interfaces you'd use on data center gear.
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Read [Mattias' article][ml] for the full story, then grab a [BPi-R3][ali],
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[flash an image][flash], and have a look at the [WiFi documentation][docs].
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[ml]: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/running-infix-banana-pi-r3-mattias-walstr%C3%B6m-lywcf
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[bpi]: /posts/banana-pi-r3/
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[zbf]: /posts/zone-based-firewall/
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[flash]: /posts/flashing-sdcard/
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[docs]: https://kernelkit.org/infix/latest/
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[ali]: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005827004033.html

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