From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Jan 4 12:47:14 2001 From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 4 12:47:13 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9F4E37B400; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 12:47:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f04KlBS14447; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 12:47:11 -0800 Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 12:47:11 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Kevin Oberman Cc: Assar Westerlund , mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lucent Wavelan and 4.2 works like a charm. Message-ID: <20010104124711.B13545@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <5ly9wrgubu.fsf@assaris.sics.se> <200101042033.f04KXVJ17907@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200101042033.f04KXVJ17907@ptavv.es.net>; from oberman@es.net on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 12:33:31PM -0800 Sender: brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 12:33:31PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > I think the default should be changed to BSS. See > > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2000/12/31/0007.html for some > > arguments. Comments? > > Another vote for this. Looks like ad-hoc is going away on the Windows > side, as well, in favor of IBSS. Ad hoc mode was never a standard, > just something that worked. I'll vote for that. I'm working up a patch to add support for standard 802.11 options to ifconfig and I'll include this in that patch. There are good uses for ad-hoc (we're going to be using it to research ad-hoc routing protocols at work). -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message