From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Jan 5 2:40:15 2001 From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 5 02:40:12 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 138D037B400; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 02:40:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from dmlb.org ([62.253.135.85]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20010105104011.FCHF10171.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@dmlb.org>; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 10:40:11 +0000 Received: from dmlb by dmlb.org with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 14EUI6-0006yD-00; Fri, 05 Jan 2001 10:40:10 +0000 Content-Length: 1668 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200101042033.f04KXVJ17907@ptavv.es.net> Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 10:40:10 -0000 (GMT) From: Duncan Barclay To: Kevin Oberman Subject: Re: Lucent Wavelan and 4.2 works like a charm. Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, Assar Westerlund Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 04-Jan-01 Kevin Oberman wrote: >> Sender: assar@assaris.sics.se >> From: Assar Westerlund >> Date: 04 Jan 2001 17:23:17 +0100 >> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG >> >> >> --=-=-= >> >> Stefan `Sec` Zehl writes: >> > A quick 'wicontrol -p 1' later everything >> > worked. >> >> 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. This is not true. Ad-hoc mode is part of the 802.11 standard and IMO is more useful for a home network than the added expense of an access point. Ad-hoc mode will not be removed from 802.11 as it represents a valuable part of the LAN configuration. An infrastructure network offers you two things over ad-hoc - power saving - distributed services Power saving is useful. A distributed service requires multiple access points connected to provide a wide coverage area. Both of these could be implemented in FreeBSD and I will be looking at both of these. > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 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