Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 19:06:15 +0100 (BST) From: Duncan Barclay <dmlb@dmlb.org> To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Subject: Re: using two wireless NICs but no access point Message-ID: <XFMail.010521190615.dmlb@computer.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <20010521143913.F41410@mail.webmonster.de>
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On 21-May-01 Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote: > Dan Langille(dan@langille.org)@2001.05.20 19:45:43 +0000: >> See http://freebsddiary.org/wireless-install.php which hasn't been >> published yet. > > dan, i looked at your writeup and some questions came up in the back of > my mind ;-) what is it, the serious voodoo lucent et al. are doing, that > makes an access point an access point? why can't i configure the card in > bss mode in the laptop and have a freebsd box mimicking an access > point? this would be rather nice because no access point i know of has > firewall or proxy capabilities and it would make sense to integrate that > in one box. A network with an access point operates differently to an IBSS network. There are changes to the way beacons and packets are handled at the MAC layer. Whilst these changes are not great, they do require that firmware on the wireless cards be told that they are in the managed network. The 802.x specs. have been made freely available for download at www.ieee.org. Duncan --- ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, dmlb@dmlb.org | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. dmlb@freebsd.org| Steven King To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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