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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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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 t=
he
> Aironet both ancontrol(8) and the Windows driver configuration use the te=
rms
> "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

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