Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 10:00:25 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: roaming from AP POV Message-ID: <20010711100025.A2879@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20010711125300.A16135@pir.net>; from pir@pir.net on Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 12:53:00PM -0400 References: <200107111608.JAA05938@sirius.cs.pdx.edu> <20010711125300.A16135@pir.net>
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--5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 12:53:00PM -0400, Peter Radcliffe wrote: > 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. The 802.11 working group did this on purpose to avoid constraining implementations to the trivial sort of one most APs use which requies a single Ethernet segment to function. Personaly, I'm intrested in a distribution service (DS) that uses IPSec tunnels to communicated with a centralized controller because I'd really like to avoid distributing an ethernet segment to 5 buildings on two seperate campuses. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7TIYnXY6L6fI4GtQRAohSAJ9owBvKlWr7P+/0yBXs/+la8jia8ACfQqLf 6FAswUPoxs9HBIfRnF+zyiY= =tq0+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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