Can a Raspberry Pi 3 be a WiFi router?
In this article I’ll present how I used a Raspberry Pi 3 to create a Wifi access point. The specificity of my setup, is that the Raspberry won’t be a router but a bridge. DHCP is thus delegated to the main ADSL router and all devices connected to the AP will appear on the same network than other devices.
Do you need a bridge between WiFi and Ethernet?
Do not confuse Ethernet:wifi -> Wifi:Ethernet with wifi:ethernet – > ethernet:wifi One just requires a Bridge between the access Point and Lan the other requires WDS to control the link. As above, the article mentioned covers a wireless Access Point not Wireless Distribution System (WDS)
Can a RPI 3 connect to a NIC?
You can try it, but AFAIK it won’t work on the RPi 3, at least not with built-in NIC. You may have some luck with USB adapters based on Atheros wireless chipsets. Until it does, you’ll have to stick to NAT if you want to connect networks via RPi, as described here.
Why is wlan0 not configured in bridge BR0?
You may have noticed that wlan0 is not configured in bridge br0. This is because hostapd will handle this once the access point is ready. So, next step is to configure the access point. For this, edit the file /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf :
Can a Raspberry Pi be used as an access point?
Now the Raspberry Pi is acting as an access point to which other devices can connect. However, those devices can’t use the Pi to access the internet just yet. To make the possible, we need to build a bridge that will pass all traffic between the wlan0 and eth0 interfaces.
How to set up a Raspberry Pi 3?
The getting an OS part of the Raspberry Pi 3 Starter Kit guide walks you through a few options to installing NOOBS on the Pi. The Headless Raspberry Pi Setup guide is useful if you are looking to configure your Pi without a monitor, keyboard, or mouse (e.g. log in through serial or SSH).
Can You host a web site on a Raspberry Pi?
With the Raspberry Pi set up as an access point, you can now configure it to host a web site (e.g. using Apache), share drive space (e.g. Samba), and any other fun router customizations you might want (but on a Pi, instead!).