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Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 00:51:26 -0700
To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>
From: Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live.com>
Subject: Re: Ad-Hoc with Windows?
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At 02:00 AM 5/2/02, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>One of the details about which Wes and I couldn't agree was whether an
>IBSS can route to the outside world.  I say yes, because any system in
>the IBSS can have other interfaces as well.  This isn't covered in the
>802.11 standard, of course.  Wes says no, because the 802.11 standard
>(available for free from
>http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/download/802.11-1999.pdf, which
>is nevertheless a web page) says that interconnection only works with
>BSS (i.e. managed) mode.  I claim that this just refers to link-level
>interconnection, and that IP routing has nothing to do with 802.11.

You are correct.  I (and lots of other people) have set up FreeBSD boxes 
that act as IP (i.e., layer-3) routers, with an IBSS 802.11b network as one 
of the links.

For more information (covering Linux as well as FreeBSD), see 
<http://www.live.com/wireless/unix-base-station.html>

         Ross.


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