Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 13:24:44 -0700 From: Richard Johnson <raj@cisco.com> To: Brad Karp <karp@eecs.harvard.edu> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu Subject: Re: wi driver and WaveLAN IEEE 802.11 Turbo cards Message-ID: <199905272024.NAA13414@kitab.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 May 1999 03:20:58 EDT." <199905210720.DAA05645@dominator.eecs.harvard.edu>
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All of the wireless ethernet systems I've seen have a central box (switch or bridge) which communicates with the PCMCIA cards. For my home use I would only have two PCMCIA cards (two laptops) using it and connected to an inhouse ethernet. I'm wondering if I could purchase simply three PCMCIA cards, one for each of two laptops, and one for an extra FreeBSD system. Then use the FreeBSD system as a router between the inhouse wired ethernet and the wireless ethernet? The real question is whether the central box does something other than simply bridging packets between the two networks. Does it do some part of the protocol which the PCMCIA cards can't do? Can a system with one PCMCIA card receive packets from multiple other PCMCIA cards directly, or do you have to always set it up as a star using the specialized central box? /raj To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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