From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Jun 5 12:15:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from rigel.cs.pdx.edu (rigel.cs.pdx.edu [131.252.208.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE9CC37B407 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 12:15:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sirius.cs.pdx.edu (root@sirius.cs.pdx.edu [131.252.208.57]) by rigel.cs.pdx.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g55JFVaT013951 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Wed, 5 Jun 2002 12:15:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sirius.cs.pdx.edu (jrb@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sirius.cs.pdx.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g55JFUSw020245; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 12:15:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200206051915.g55JFUSw020245@sirius.cs.pdx.edu> To: ptp@lists.spack.org Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: dualing IBSS/managed modes on same system Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 12:15:30 -0700 From: Jim Binkley 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 Possible dumb question time: Would it be possible for a system using an openAP driver and suitable hw to function as a mere "station"; at the same time 1. associate with an AP 2. AND also do IBSS mode in order to talk peer to peer; --------------ethernet-------------------- | AP | magic node ---- peer to peer/IBSS ---- another magic node or IBSS speaker I am wondering if Journi's prism2 driver or the BSD version could be taught to do that. This would get us back to the wonderful world of mostly theoretical multi-hop ad hoc routing ... Jim Binkley jrb@cs.pdx.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message