From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Jul 10 5:30:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from fnord.ir.bbn.com (FNORD.IR.BBN.COM [192.1.100.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5B00937B405 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 05:30:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gdt@fnord.ir.bbn.com) Received: (qmail 98409 invoked by uid 10853); 10 Jul 2001 12:30:25 -0000 To: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless base stations References: <200107092007.f69K7XJ21410@harmony.village.org> From: Greg Troxel Date: 10 Jul 2001 08:30:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: Warner Losh's message of "Mon, 09 Jul 2001 14:07:33 -0600" Message-ID: Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 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 Can people comment if these cheap APs are running in true 'infrastructure mode' and can support multiple APs on an ethernet with roaming across APs similar to the Lucent AP500? Specifically, if I bought 14 of the cheapest Linksys bridges and put 2 to a floor on my 7-story building all on an Ethernet run around to all 14 of them, and set them to different channels, would I then be able to wander around floor to floor and stay on the net with the same IP address? One person commented 'no filtering by MAC'. Does this mean that every packet on the wired Ethernet will end up over the air, even if it is unicast and the corresponding address is not associated with the AP? Does this differ between the cheap APs and the Lucent products (AP-500/1000, ignoring the RG)? I realize I'm asking different questions; I'm considering what it takes to set up my building at work rather than a single AP for home (I have a Lucent card in a pcmcia bridge in 'create IBSS' mode there). Greg Troxel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message