[MLB-WIRELESS] [BSD] wavelan bridging (fwd)

[vortex]

OK. I get asked this quite often. The background reasons for my preference 
for IBSS mode are that host based gateways, except for some chipsets/firmware 
will not work (yet) in BSS AP mode (this is the ubiquity element).

And as you rightly point out AP-AP communication is not standardised.

My aim in this eventually is to ensure that any client that connects to a 
wlan network can easily become a a further gateway or "AP" itself (a sort of 
evolutionary p2p network expansion). This presently seems most achievable via 
IBSS mode.

Yes, there is still the hidden node issue, but there are ways of getting 
around this, from judicious subnetting to IP tunnelling.

.vortex

On Monday 01 April 2002  1:44 am, Adrian Close wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, vortex wrote:
> > for ubiquity, i recommend keeping configurations to ibss mode (peer to
> > peer mode). at this stage (in terms of the 802.11b standards, or lack of
> > them in this respect), there is little advantage to bss mode for open
> > public access networks.
>
> Do you have any reasons, other than "ubiquity", for this?  I would have
> thought it would be easier for public access users to use a service
> provided by an access point (BSS mode).  Easier to find (beacon frames to
> scan for) and easier to configure, since BSS mode seems to be the default
> setting for most cards/drivers.

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