Re: wireless lans with multiple accesspoints

For this configuration to work correctly, the two access points must be 
connected at least with a bridge. You cannot have each access point be a 
router without disrupting clients as they move from one to another., but 
if they are bridged (or hubbed) together, it will work just fine.

If you have FreeBSD machines with cards in HostAP mode, you should check 
out /usr/share/examples/netgraph/ether.bridge. When my wife and I go 
visit my folks, I turn my laptop into a HostAP and bridge it to their 
cable-modem LAN. Having done that, my wife's laptop can get on the 
Internet just like it does when we're at home. Yes, we're a geek couple. :-)

Christoph Kukulies wrote:

>Sorry, if this is not directly FreeBSD related but I hope to
>find some expertise here in this list:
>
>Assume you have a LAN with several access-points attached. 
>The reachability areas of these access-points are overlapping.
>
>There is a DHCP server in the network that supplies IP adresses for the
>access-points and the clients, e.g. notebooks with wireless pc cards.
>
>What happens when you are in the area that is covered by two access-points?
>
>I mean, which access-point takes over the 'routing'?
>
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>Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies [email protected]
>
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