Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:45:24 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Jim King <jim@jimking.net> Cc: Wesley Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 802.11b ad hoc configuration Message-ID: <20010426174524.C13558@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <002201c0ceaa$f7efe470$04e48486@marble>; from jim@jimking.net on Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 06:45:25PM -0500 References: <20010426154923.J57796-100000@volatile.chemikals.org> <002201c0ceaa$f7efe470$04e48486@marble>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 06:45:25PM -0500, Jim King wrote: > Is BSS actually a different mode, or a synonym for something else? For the > Aironet both ancontrol(8) and the Windows driver configuration use the terms > "ad-hoc" and "infrastructure" for the two available modes. Most people are using BSS to refer to infrastucture mode. I really wish they would stick to "ad-hoc" and "infrastructure" because the majority of uses of the technical terms I've seen have been wrong or at least highly misleading. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE66MEjXY6L6fI4GtQRAirMAJ96HSF0pMo2Hdp77dNWT+1mjLR+PgCfUNHc ggfeaPygpK3PkUxhwhzm49o= =Qh+2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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