Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 16:27:31 -0700 From: Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wireless lans with multiple accesspoints Message-ID: <3D111363.80007@kfu.com> References: <200206170919.LAA11550@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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For this configuration to work correctly, the two access points must be connected at least with a bridge. You cannot have each access point be a router without disrupting clients as they move from one to another., but if they are bridged (or hubbed) together, it will work just fine. If you have FreeBSD machines with cards in HostAP mode, you should check out /usr/share/examples/netgraph/ether.bridge. When my wife and I go visit my folks, I turn my laptop into a HostAP and bridge it to their cable-modem LAN. Having done that, my wife's laptop can get on the Internet just like it does when we're at home. Yes, we're a geek couple. :-) Christoph Kukulies wrote: >Sorry, if this is not directly FreeBSD related but I hope to >find some expertise here in this list: > >Assume you have a LAN with several access-points attached. >The reachability areas of these access-points are overlapping. > >There is a DHCP server in the network that supplies IP adresses for the >access-points and the clients, e.g. notebooks with wireless pc cards. > >What happens when you are in the area that is covered by two access-points? > >I mean, which access-point takes over the 'routing'? > >-- >Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies@rwth-aachen.de > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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