Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 17:03:56 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> Cc: grog@lemis.com, doconnor@gsoft.com.au, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, wes@softweyr.com, dunham@dunham.org, jdunham@m3designinc.com, jdunham@texas.net Subject: Re: Ad-Hoc with Windows? Message-ID: <20020503170356.A9534@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20020503.175801.101616114.imp@village.org>; from imp@village.org on Fri, May 03, 2002 at 05:58:01PM -0600 References: <1020331032.442.168.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> <20020503.082221.37493394.imp@village.org> <20020504092022.J12386@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020503.175801.101616114.imp@village.org>
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--AqsLC8rIMeq19msA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 05:58:01PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20020504092022.J12386@wantadilla.lemis.com> > "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@lemis.com> writes: > : On Friday, 3 May 2002 at 8:22:21 -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > : >>> - The BSDs are doing it wrong. We should be using IBSS mode, not d= emo > : >>> ad-hoc. > : > > : > ad-hoc is insufficient. We should create a media option like OpenBSD > : > has called master-ibss which does the right thing for the different > : > types of hardware. > :=20 > : Why master-ibss? What's the difference between that and IBSS? I > : haven't found this term in the standard. >=20 > 'ibss-master' is the master ibss you need one of these. 'ibss' is for > all the other nodes on the network. This is approximately the -c > flag. If I understand correctly, the difference is a bit gratutitous. There has to be one master ibss and setting that option makes it possiable to create one. It should be possiable to run all nodes with ibss-master (if it's not, something is really wrong.) -- 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 --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA 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 iD8DBQE80yVrXY6L6fI4GtQRAsIRAKC+cu+wZ2VBqZVq7gO8K/6kP/G7aACdH4+r BRYobBMXxgqn9vP+s5cE3qI= =iTJJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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