From owner-freebsd-net Thu Apr 26 17:45:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8CA437B422 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:45:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f3R0jON02828; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:45:24 -0700 Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:45:24 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Jim King Cc: Wesley Morgan , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 802.11b ad hoc configuration Message-ID: <20010426174524.C13558@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20010426154923.J57796-100000@volatile.chemikals.org> <002201c0ceaa$f7efe470$04e48486@marble> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="8NvZYKFJsRX2Djef" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <002201c0ceaa$f7efe470$04e48486@marble>; from jim@jimking.net on Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 06:45:25PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --8NvZYKFJsRX2Djef Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=20 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 --8NvZYKFJsRX2Djef Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----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----- --8NvZYKFJsRX2Djef-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message