From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Jul 11 9:53: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [130.64.1.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2618137B403 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 09:53:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pir@pir.net) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 15KNES-0004HB-00 for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 12:53:00 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 12:53:00 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: roaming from AP POV Message-ID: <20010711125300.A16135@pir.net> Reply-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <200107111608.JAA05938@sirius.cs.pdx.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200107111608.JAA05938@sirius.cs.pdx.edu>; from jrb@cs.pdx.edu on Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:08:53AM -0700 X-fish: < X-Copy-On-Listmail: Please do NOT Cc: me on list mail. Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jim Binkley probably said: > 1. none ... you have to manually set APs to different channels. > E.g., I have the cheapest linksys AP, and it doesn't seem to > have any brains in that dept ?! All the "home" APs do not actively support roaming. You have to set things up. > 2. some proprietary scheme ... > > 3. IAPP, or Inter-Acess Point Protocol, which seems to have > two parts ... an exchange of UDP beacons between APs that allow > them to set themselves auto-magically to different channels, > and a handoff protocol so that in theory packets for a node > that was associated with AP A can go to AP B. > > Any comments? I suspect cheaper APs support #1 ... > Lucent does 3. Cisco does ??? There is no standard for a protocol for access points to talk to each other. Until there is, all of these are non-standard (bar #1). The area hasn't settled down yet and it's likely to take a while. P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message