Router Station

[zed]

I guess that this would be the Ideal board for the hi performance
AP weve been looking from ubiquiti?

Zed

[UBNT-Mike.Ford]

Indeed.

[sarvani]

When are you expecting begining of shipments for this product??

Amarendra

[UBNT-Mike.Ford]

Hello Savani,

I am trying to work out the dates that these units will be in distribution and will let you guys know as soon as I know.

Thanks,

Mike

[sarpkaya]

Specs looks like, Routerboard 433AH but that has 128 megs ram. Why did you use 64 mb ram?

[UBNT-Mike.Ford]

Hello Sarpkaya,

The MikroTik's have far more overhead that our products and require a greater amount of memory to run correctly.

Thanks,

Mike

[ubidev]

Will Routerstation support SR71 ?
Also why have you not put a Gigabit ethernet card in it.

[sarpkaya]

Will Routerstation support SR71 ?
Also why have you not put a Gigabit ethernet card in it.
Well, I thought that too.
Let's think, well.
If you'll gonna use that with Mimo card, you'll need 100 mbps per card.
So it has 3 cards that's enough to push up 300 mbps that's what total 3 card needs. So it equalizes.

[UBNT-Mike.Ford]

Hello Sarpkaya,

For SR71 please use LS-SR71. In the meantime, RouterStation will be shipping with standard OpenWRT witch does not have Mimo support.

Thank you,

Mike

[ubidev]

Hi,

Are there any plans to support SR 71 on routerstation in future.

[friday]

I would really be interested in the actual throughput of the RouterStation - a throughput comparison like on the routerboard homepage (http://www.routerboard.com/pdf/tests_july_2008.pdf) would be nice! (also for all the other stations like nano-, pico-, bullet(hp)- .. ).

Specifically the wireless throughput is of interest to me, e.g. how many clients can I connect by what data rate without experiencing an impact on performace (therefore pps and Mbps).

I'm really impressed with all the innovation that ubiquiti puts into their products - IMHO there is a huge demand for a high-performance (and high-quiality!) wireless-router! Keep up the good work guys!

[polokus]

Hello Sarpkaya,

The MikroTik's have far more overhead that our products and require a greater amount of memory to run correctly.

Thanks,

Mike
With lack of Memory there will be no BGP enabled version for RS? only for Wireless thing?
Is it possible to run OpenBSD on RouterStation?

[UBNT-Mike.Ford]

Hello Polokus,

As far as I am aware no one has ported this stuff over yet. Maybe for the RouterStation challenge someone will do a port. We will see.

Thanks,

Mike

[garyd]

As far as I am aware no one has ported this stuff over yet. Maybe for the RouterStation challenge someone will do a port. We will see.

That would probably require the SR/XR/SR71 drivers being ported first if support for the Atheros AR5213 and AR5414 chips not already included in any of OpenBSD's Atheros drivers. I see the AR5212 in the ath driver but I don't know how much it differs from the 5213. Are the OpenWRT/linux kernel drivers GPL, LGPL, or BSD licensed? I don't remember if OpenWRT uses MadWifi drivers or not. Is AirOS also based on OpenWRT? Are the chipset docs freely available from Atheros? q.v. the OpenBSD supported hardware list (http://openbsd.org/i386.html#hardware), the Wikipedia entry on binary blobs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_blobs), and the OpenHAL (http://madwifi-project.org/wiki/About/OpenHAL) controversy from the MadWifi project.

-Gary

[UBNT-Mike.Taylor]

Check out http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/mips/UBNT-RouterStation for information on BSD support.

[UBNT-Mike.Taylor]

Are the OpenWRT/linux kernel drivers GPL, LGPL, or BSD licensed?

HAL is closed source, ath5k and madwifi are dual GPL / BSD, and ath9k is *probably* also dual GPL/BSD (IIRC). Of course you would have to check those packages for full details.

I don't remember if OpenWRT uses MadWifi drivers or not.

OpenWRT Kamikaze supports ath5k, ath9k, and madwifi. ath9k supports station mode only so far, but can drive a SR71A in station mode.

Is AirOS also based on OpenWRT?

AirOS is based on Atheros development kits.

Are the chipset docs freely available from Atheros?

The chipset documentation is covered by NDA and is licensed to individual companies. That said, much of the hardware-specific HAL code has been published by Atheros. Atheros has released the HAL source code that would work for all current UBNT cards except SR71A. Sam Leffler has also released HAL sources (to the BSD git repository). The ath9k project supports SR71A in station mode as I mentioned above. Code for justa bout every 802.11-standard thing you can do with these cards is available under GPL or BSD.

- Mike