Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 12:53:00 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: roaming from AP POV Message-ID: <20010711125300.A16135@pir.net> In-Reply-To: <200107111608.JAA05938@sirius.cs.pdx.edu>; from jrb@cs.pdx.edu on Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:08:53AM -0700 References: <200107111608.JAA05938@sirius.cs.pdx.edu>
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Jim Binkley <jrb@cs.pdx.edu> probably said: > 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 ?! All the "home" APs do not actively support roaming. You have to set things up. > 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 ??? There is no standard for a protocol for access points to talk to each other. Until there is, all of these are non-standard (bar #1). The area hasn't settled down yet and it's likely to take a while. P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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