Re: Ad-Hoc with Windows?
Ross Finlayson <[email protected]>
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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.
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