From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jun 10 21:22:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA28379 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 21:22:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA28372 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 21:22:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA02667; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 22:22:32 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 22:22:32 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199706110422.WAA02667@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Bernie Doehner Cc: Nate Williams , "Tom T. Thai" , "Yury V. Savin" , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wavelan ISA Card??? In-Reply-To: References: <199706110407.WAA02557@rocky.mt.sri.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > How does the AT&T Wavelan stuff work? The Xircom stuff has a 'base > > station' that you stick on your ethernet segment that broadcasts data > > to/from the machines with Xircom cards in them. Is the WaveLAN stuff at > > all like that? > > > It's like an ethernet card. If you want connectivity to a backbone you > install either a access point (mucho $$$), or a FreeBSD box with one > Wavelan and one ethernet card and route between them. How much is an access point? (The $950 I mentioned earlier for the NetWave setup was the access point, since it connected to our local ethernet.) Before I prattle on indefinitely, does anyone have a WWW site I could head for that might have answers to these sorts of questions? (Most commercial sites are long on marketing and short on data.) Nate