From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Nov 29 21:21:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from cisco.com (flipper.cisco.com [171.69.25.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90F9937B400 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 21:21:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from kitab.cisco.com (kitab.cisco.com [171.69.187.233]) by cisco.com (8.8.5-Cisco.2-SunOS.5.5.1.sun4/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA01088; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 21:21:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from raj@localhost) by kitab.cisco.com (8.11.0/8.9.2) id eAU5LkW05485; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 21:21:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from raj) From: Richard Johnson MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 21:21:45 -0800 (PST) To: Peter Radcliffe Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wavelan base stations (Re: Aviator 2.4) In-Reply-To: <20001128130551.B4237@pir.net> References: <200011280746.eAS7klc01290@zorba.sf-bay.org> <20001128130551.B4237@pir.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14885.57818.459878.510449@kitab.cisco.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Peter Radcliffe writes: > The firmware on the lucent gateway forces the first 6 characters of > the network name to seemingly random hex digits (not related to the > mac address or the id of the unit) and the software won't let you use > 90% of the unit's features and won't even let you change the SNMP > community string. It's not really "random". The network name is set to the last 6 characters of the box serial number. You can't change it, however. You are FORCED to use encryption and the encryption key MUST be exactly 5 ascii characters. The ascii code for those characters becomes the 40 bit encryption key. I'm thinking about writing up a web page explaining the differences between the Airport, RG-1000, and Cabletron RoamAbout systems. It just happens that I have the Cabletron system and two of my relatives have the other two so I have good experience with each. :) /raj To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message