From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 26 11: 1:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk (bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk [128.16.5.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F036C37B42C; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 11:01:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ginger.cs.ucl.ac.uk by bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk with local SMTP id ; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 19:00:58 +0100 Message-ID: <39A805D7.95A813AF@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 19:00:55 +0100 From: Theo PAGTZIS Reply-To: t.pagtzis@cs.ucl.ac.uk Organization: UCL X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: el, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Kozowski Cc: Theo PAGTZIS , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fbsd box acting as a wavelan BS References: <39A54A50.1151A1A@cs.ucl.ac.uk> <20000824104345.G12584@schooner.svjava.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Eric Kozowski wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 05:16:16PM +0100, Theo PAGTZIS wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Has anyone managed to configure a fbsd box as a Wavelan BS ? > > yes it's easy. which wavelan card are you using? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message Wavelan Orinoco...Silver (with the ISA bridge) I would like to know how but ...do you really mean that the fbsd box is acting a base station with the wavelan card in *infrastructure* mode or do you mean that the box operates in ad-hoc (peer to peer ) mode. Adhoc mode is very easy...what I want is to have the fbsd base station act as an access point where _many_ clients can associate....not just one.... so which of the two does the fbsd "wavelan BS" do ...adhoc mode (peer to peer connection ) or infrastructure mode...??? If it works in ad-hoc mode the PCF and DCF functions are not really happening...which is what a BS is all about... Don't you agree? (or anyone else) Theo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message