Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 18:26:24 +0000 From: Matt Thomas <matt@lkg.dec.com> To: Jim Binkley <jrb@cs.pdx.edu> Cc: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi), dreeder@cs.pdx.edu, mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wavelan PCMCIA Message-ID: <199606071826.SAA26039@whydos.lkg.dec.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Jun 1996 14:25:59 MST." <199606062126.OAA25431@sirius.cs.pdx.edu>
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> Re dec stuff. We are doing mobile-ip (and in fact it is beginning to work), > so we aren't interested in "roaming" (basically link layer access point > switches) per se. The way att seems to do that, > it involves having a different NWID per access point (bridge). The unix > drivers won't understand that of course. I understand from Kannan A., > formerly at DEC, that DEC has a form > of mobile-ip. Are your access points running that Matt? Nope. They run Digital's verison of WaveLAN roaming software. The roaming protocol is fairly simple from what I've read. The difficult part is getting the additional information along the packet from BPF. -- Matt Thomas Internet: matt@3am-software.com 3am Software Foundry WWW URL: http://www.3am-software.com/bio/matt.html Westford, MA Disclaimer: I disavow all knowledge of this message
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