Trying to figure out how to make a pi or my Linux workstation an access point bridged to my network has been tedious
Once you get familiar with openwrt, it does a lot of interesting things.
I did it as an experiment and have a pi running openwrt as an ntp server. it's behaved very well.
what's your favorite feature?
Another feature is the GUI. You can easily get started, but as you become familiar with the system, you can just edit the configuration files to change things.
Does https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/computers/configur... work for you?
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