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Date:      Sat, 4 May 2002 09:42:47 +0930
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>, 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:  <20020504094247.O12386@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020503170356.A9534@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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> <20020503170356.A9534@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>

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On Friday,  3 May 2002 at 17:03:56 -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> 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@FreeBSD.org> 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 demo
>>>>>>   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.
>>>
>>> Why master-ibss?  What's the difference between that and IBSS?  I
>>> haven't found this term in the standard.
>>
>> '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.  

Yes, this is pretty much my understanding.

> It should be possiable to run all nodes with ibss-master (if it's
> not, something is really wrong.)

I've certainly done it with two, before I understood that that wasn't
necessary.

Greg
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