From owner-cvs-all Mon May 6 22:26:35 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EA0C37B403; Mon, 6 May 2002 22:26:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id g475QH003545; Mon, 6 May 2002 22:26:17 -0700 Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 22:26:17 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: grog@FreeBSD.org, chris@masto.com, jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za, brooks@one-eyed-alien.net, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 wi.4 Message-ID: <20020506222616.B1977@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20020505.143435.103661399.imp@village.org> <20020506135655.GA67245@netmonger.net> <20020507115643.N75198@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020506.211945.111478471.imp@village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="SkvwRMAIpAhPCcCJ" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020506.211945.111478471.imp@village.org>; from imp@village.org on Mon, May 06, 2002 at 09:19:45PM -0600 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --SkvwRMAIpAhPCcCJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 09:19:45PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20020507115643.N75198@wantadilla.lemis.com> > : Interesting question. You only need to create an IBSS once per IBSS > : network. I now have definitive proof that the station which creates > : the IBSS doesn't do very much: I've taken that station out of the net, > : and the other two machines can still talk to each other. But I can > : see issues when more than one station creates the IBSS: the net could > : partition itself into two different IBSSs, so I suspect we should keep > : the distinction, though the term "master" seems less appropriate. >=20 > Yes, but you need to keep recreating it from time to time, as these > things time out. "master" will be there until you convince OpenBSD to > change, so quit harping on that. My intented implementation is that adhoc will mean ibss-master in 5.0. If there are devices out there that are so totally broken that they screw things up when they are allowed to create an IBSS and someone else has done it first, we'll deal with the problem then. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --SkvwRMAIpAhPCcCJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE812V4XY6L6fI4GtQRAhPPAKDjMfFoqR+N/+jxfcmQ9IG9skkAHwCZAUC7 Za2vO2yNJYQr9PXGO7EZmGs= =R6BG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --SkvwRMAIpAhPCcCJ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message