Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 00:51:26 -0700 From: Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live.com> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Jerry Dunham <dunham@dunham.org>, Jerry Dunham <jdunham@m3designinc.com>, jdunham@texas.net Subject: Re: Ad-Hoc with Windows? Message-ID: <4.3.1.1.20020503004746.00cdf350@laptop-localhost> In-Reply-To: <20020502183058.A52284@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <1020327165.442.165.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> <1020327165.442.165.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>
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At 02:00 AM 5/2/02, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >One of the details about which Wes and I couldn't agree was whether an >IBSS can route to the outside world. I say yes, because any system in >the IBSS can have other interfaces as well. This isn't covered in the >802.11 standard, of course. Wes says no, because the 802.11 standard >(available for free from >http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/download/802.11-1999.pdf, which >is nevertheless a web page) says that interconnection only works with >BSS (i.e. managed) mode. I claim that this just refers to link-level >interconnection, and that IP routing has nothing to do with 802.11. You are correct. I (and lots of other people) have set up FreeBSD boxes that act as IP (i.e., layer-3) routers, with an IBSS 802.11b network as one of the links. For more information (covering Linux as well as FreeBSD), see <http://www.live.com/wireless/unix-base-station.html>; Ross. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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