From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon May 21 5:38:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail.webmonster.de (datasink.webmonster.de [194.162.162.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2699037B422 for ; Mon, 21 May 2001 05:38:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from karsten@rohrbach.de) Received: (qmail 43001 invoked by uid 1000); 21 May 2001 12:39:13 -0000 Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 14:39:13 +0200 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" To: Dan Langille Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using two wireless NICs but no access point Message-ID: <20010521143913.F41410@mail.webmonster.de> Mail-Followup-To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" , Dan Langille , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <200105201503.f4KF38r29572@lists.unixathome.org>; <20010521090711.A30256@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200105202345.f4KNjir34910@lists.unixathome.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200105202345.f4KNjir34910@lists.unixathome.org>; from dan@langille.org on Sun, May 20, 2001 at 07:45:43PM -0400 X-Arbitrary-Number-Of-The-Day: 42 X-URL: http://www.webmonster.de/ X-Disclaimer: My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my employer 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 Dan Langille(dan@langille.org)@2001.05.20 19:45:43 +0000: > See http://freebsddiary.org/wireless-install.php which hasn't been > published yet. dan, i looked at your writeup and some questions came up in the back of my mind ;-) what is it, the serious voodoo lucent et al. are doing, that makes an access point an access point? why can't i configure the card in bss mode in the laptop and have a freebsd box mimicking an access point? this would be rather nice because no access point i know of has firewall or proxy capabilities and it would make sense to integrate that in one box. /k -- > Absinthe makes the tart grow fonder. KR433/KR11-RIPE -- WebMonster Community Founder -- nGENn GmbH Senior Techie http://www.webmonster.de/ -- ftp://ftp.webmonster.de/ -- http://www.ngenn.net/ karsten&rohrbach.de -- alpha&ngenn.net -- alpha&scene.org -- catch@spam.de GnuPG 0x2964BF46 2001-03-15 42F9 9FFF 50D4 2F38 DBEE DF22 3340 4F4E 2964 BF46 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message