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 -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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