From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Jun 7 15:33:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-mobile Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA29733 for mobile-outgoing; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 15:33:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail13.digital.com (mail13.digital.com [192.208.46.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA29727 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 15:32:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from muggsy.lkg.dec.com by mail13.digital.com (8.7.5/UNX 1.2/1.0/WV) id SAA28217; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 18:22:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from whydos.lkg.dec.com by muggsy.lkg.dec.com (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) with SMTP id AA22112; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 18:21:49 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by whydos.lkg.dec.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA26039; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 18:26:32 GMT Message-Id: <199606071826.SAA26039@whydos.lkg.dec.com> X-Authentication-Warning: whydos.lkg.dec.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.5 12/11/95 To: Jim Binkley Cc: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi), dreeder@cs.pdx.edu, mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wavelan PCMCIA In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Jun 1996 14:25:59 MST." <199606062126.OAA25431@sirius.cs.pdx.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 18:26:24 +0000 From: Matt Thomas Sender: owner-mobile@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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