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Diffstat (limited to 'man/wifibox-alpine.5')
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/man/wifibox-alpine.5 b/man/wifibox-alpine.5 index f77311b..205522c 100644 --- a/man/wifibox-alpine.5 +++ b/man/wifibox-alpine.5 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.Dd June 16, 2022 +.Dd September 17, 2022 .Dt WIFIBOX-ALPINE 5 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -14,10 +14,12 @@ of this setup, this has to be a system with a low resource footprint and easy to manage. .Pp This solution is derived from Alpine Linux, which is an actively -maintained, security-oriented, lightweight distribution, based on musl -libc and busybox. For more information and introduction to the tools -that are going to be used in the sections below, please visit the -following sites: +maintained, security-oriented, lightweight distribution, based on +.Sy musl libc +and +.Sy busybox. +For more information and introduction to the tools that are going to +be used in the sections below, please visit the following sites: .Pp .Bl -bullet -compact .It @@ -70,7 +72,7 @@ the host. .Pp The image can host either .Sy wpa_supplicant -for connecting to wirelss networks, or +for connecting to wireless networks, or .Sy hostapd for creating wireless access points, depending how it was built. Each application-specific detail is going to be included below. @@ -119,7 +121,7 @@ guest. .Sy udhcpd works with the .Pa appliance/udhcpd.conf -file and it can implements a DHCP server for either +file and it can implement a DHCP server for either .Sy eth0 or .Sy wlan0 @@ -129,8 +131,10 @@ or the clients on the wireless network .Sy ( hostapd ) , and can set itself the default gateway for forwarding the network traffic. It also manages the distribution of information about the -name servers. This is utilized only when dynamic IP addresses are in -use. +name servers, in cooperation with +.Sy udhcpc +(DHCP client) when required. This is utilized only when dynamic IP +addresses are in use. .It .Sy uds_passthru is an optional service for managing the forwarding of control sockets @@ -175,9 +179,9 @@ is used directly from this location by .Pa /media/etc/udhcpd.conf is mapped to .Pa /etc/udhcpd.conf -where +which will be used to generate the configuration file that .Sy udhcpd -will read its contents. +will read. .It .Pa /media/etc/uds_passthru.conf is used directly from this location by |