Anyone tried using pi zero w's as super-cheap non-crap (compared to consumer 'router' products) wifi bridges?
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Of course you'd also need ethernet dongles and power supplies, possibly integrated into one if you can get it (PoE with USB power output?)
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Replying to @RichFelker
The Pi Zero can act as a USB device, not just a host, with some configuration. This includes pretending to be a USB Ethernet adapter. It can also get power from the USB connection it's using for that.
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Yeah but I meant the other end of the bridge. Not pretending to be an ethernet device, rather plugging into ethernet and providing a wifi AP.
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Aaaah. So using it as an awfully cheap but reasonably well-documented consumer router, more or less. I've not seen many people talk about it, but they literally give you docs on it: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/wireless/access-point.md …
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Yeah, but specifically not as a router, although you could. Just in pure bridge-mode. No software but brctl and hostapd needed, doesn't even need an IP address.
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Of course if you wanted you could let it run dhcpcd and then get its signed hostapd config from the network with central configuration management.
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