From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Jun 17 16:37: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (gw.Awfulhak.org [217.204.245.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 044D237B415 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 16:36:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [IPv6:fec0::1:12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5HNaeMt062853; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 00:36:40 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [IPv6:::1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.12.4/8.12.4) with SMTP id g5HNadmv000892; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 00:36:39 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 00:36:39 +0100 From: Brian Somers To: Christoph Kukulies Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wireless lans with multiple accesspoints Message-Id: <20020618003639.6592f5ae.brian@Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: <200206170919.LAA11550@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <200206170919.LAA11550@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.6claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The access points will negotiate with eachother and choose the one with the strongest signal. On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 11:19:53 +0200, 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 -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message