From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Sep 9 11: 4:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 465BE37B400 for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 11:04:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web21102.mail.yahoo.com (web21102.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.227.104]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 02B1943E6A for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 11:04:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from geekvinod@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20020909180218.58126.qmail@web21102.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [152.15.26.29] by web21102.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 09 Sep 2002 11:02:18 PDT Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 11:02:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Vinod Subject: Ad-Hoc Vs Host-Ap To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Hi i needed some help figuring out the advantages of an ad-hoc setup to an infrastructure setup. I plan to use a proxy between my wireless clients and the internet outside.I need to put a lot of code in my proxy to manage my network(part of my research work).so i assume i can't use normal Access point hardware(correct me if i am wrong as i beleive i cant put too much code in a vendor's access point.or can i?).So i figured i needed a desktop or laptop to act as my proxy. if this proxy in ad-hoc mode,acts as a gateway to my wireless clients ,how different would it be compared to using this proxy in infrastructure mode(Host-AP mode), considering the fact that all i need the proxy to do is act as a gateway? Can anyone tell me in terms of performance. Thanks in Advance, Vinod __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message