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I have a custom built home security system I am working on using Arch Linux, Zoneminder, and a set of Foscam FI9800P wireless IP cameras.
The system being built has a gigabit ethernet port which I would like to use to connect it to the primary home network to access the Zoneminder web UI. It also has a PCIe wireless card which I would like to use to host a completely separate wireless network isolated from the primary network. This network will be used exclusively for the IP cameras to help eliminate bandwidth usage on the primary network.
The issue I'm running into and can't seem to find a solution for is that I can use create_ap to establish an access point but I want it to be a separate network. All resources I've found searching online describe access points only and nothing regarding a wireless router. There are article on the archwiki for creating a router (which I've followed), and internet sharing (which doesn't detail wireless APs) but I can't find anything for this circumstance.
Can anyone help in either pointing to documentation or detailing any methods to use a Linux based PC as a wireless router?
EDIT (For clarification)
It's mainly just the wireless aspect I need info on. I have another computer on my nework set up nearly the same in a hardwired configuration as my home router, were this two ethernet interfaces I'd be golden, it's the wireless AP and getting it working that I'm having the trouble with.
That works except the IP for the WAP isn't persistent over reboots. I'm having weird behavior now though, it's automatically assigning the WAP with 169.254.156.239/16 at boot time. I can reassign it manually as in your answer but when I set a netctl profile to give it 172.16.0.1 it doesn't persist. Other than that you've solved my problem, thank you very much for the help. – FatalKeystroke – 2017-02-28T20:05:13.793
Nevermind, I just set Bindsto in the systemd service for hostapd to wait for the network interface and it was good. – FatalKeystroke – 2017-03-01T03:41:28.003
Cool, looks as if you got what you needed. – asmith – 2017-03-01T10:25:32.027