Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 09:08:53 -0700 From: Jim Binkley <jrb@cs.pdx.edu> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: roaming from AP POV Message-ID: <200107111608.JAA05938@sirius.cs.pdx.edu>
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My understanding of roaming is that there are three possible "roaming" protocols in terms of the access points. 1. none ... you have to manually set APs to different channels. E.g., I have the cheapest linksys AP, and it doesn't seem to have any brains in that dept ?! 2. some proprietary scheme ... 3. IAPP, or Inter-Acess Point Protocol, which seems to have two parts ... an exchange of UDP beacons between APs that allow them to set themselves auto-magically to different channels, and a handoff protocol so that in theory packets for a node that was associated with AP A can go to AP B. Any comments? I suspect cheaper APs support #1 ... Lucent does 3. Cisco does ??? regards, Jim Binkley jrb@cs.pdx.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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