Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 00:36:39 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wireless lans with multiple accesspoints Message-ID: <20020618003639.6592f5ae.brian@Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: <200206170919.LAA11550@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <200206170919.LAA11550@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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The access points will negotiate with eachother and choose the one with
the strongest signal.
On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 11:19:53 +0200, Christoph Kukulies <kuku@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
>
> Sorry, if this is not directly FreeBSD related but I hope to
> find some expertise here in this list:
>
> Assume you have a LAN with several access-points attached.
> The reachability areas of these access-points are overlapping.
>
> There is a DHCP server in the network that supplies IP adresses for the
> access-points and the clients, e.g. notebooks with wireless pc cards.
>
> What happens when you are in the area that is covered by two access-points?
>
> I mean, which access-point takes over the 'routing'?
>
> --
> Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies@rwth-aachen.de
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