From owner-freebsd-net Sat Aug 26 11:28:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk (bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk [128.16.5.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E74837B43C; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 11:28:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ginger.cs.ucl.ac.uk by bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk with local SMTP id ; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 19:28:04 +0100 Message-ID: <39A80C31.2FB487D5@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 19:28:01 +0100 From: Theo PAGTZIS Reply-To: t.pagtzis@cs.ucl.ac.uk Organization: UCL X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: el, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Flowers Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fbsd box acting as a wavelan BS References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jim Flowers wrote: > Last I checked the wi driver will not do IBSS and says so in the > documentation. I also tried it and couldn't get anywhere. Would be nice. > Jim, do you mean Bill's driver doesn't do adhoc mode...? IBSS is independent BSS which is adhoc mode...did you mean to say BSS ?? > > Even better would be to use the algos in their office router stuff. We're > looking at that now. > Couldn't agree more... > > We currently use a fbsd box to connect the Internet to a WavePointII on > one frequency and then on a second frequency we connect multipoint users > with fbsd boxes. > wait a minute...a single WPII bridge is connected behind a fbsd router box.....fine...now one freq is to act as a portal for the ...Internet?? and the other is to act as an AP for the nodes... but the BS can operate in a single freq...cannot switch between different frequencies (unless you set it manually but this is a different cell altogether...from the portal cell to Inet..) something is not quite right here...could you explain a little? > > Works very well although the WavePointII has to be monitored > continuously. Bandwidth varies from 600 kbps to about 3000 kbps. why does the WPII have to be monitored? In any case the AP function is not effected in the fbsd box but on lucent's bridge...well that is what I am doing....for the moment... Do you have any code that is checking out the office router algos? I would appreciate a peek.... :) Theo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message