Field Report: WiFi AP on BPi-R3
WiFi access point support landed in Infix v26.01, and the engineer who spent six months making it happen — Mattias Walström — wasted no time putting it to the test. He wrote up his experience of replacing his home network with a full Infix deployment on a BPi-R3.
His setup runs six SSIDs across 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz, each on its own isolated network: trusted devices, IoT (13+ smart home gadgets with DHCP reservations), guest, and untrusted. A zone-based firewall keeps everything separated and a WireGuard tunnel handles remote access. The MT7976C chipset supports up to 16 virtual access points per radio, so there’s plenty of room to grow.
All of it running on a €150 router board, managed through the same NETCONF/RESTCONF interfaces you’d use on data center gear.
Read Mattias’ article for the full story, then grab a BPi-R3, flash an image, and have a look at the WiFi documentation.