[MLB-WIRELESS] Access Point Node Names

Ryan Abbenhuys sneeze at alphalink.com.au
Fri Jun 14 10:49:43 EST 2002


I only meant for people running AP's to use the format.

I'm hoping people are intelligent enough not to call themselves and AP when
they aren't one......may be asking too much of some people I realise.

>Ryan Abbenhuys wrote:
>
>>I notice there's a few people starting to copy the Access Point node name
format
>>of "Suburb-AP#" on the wireless.org.au node database and also on nodedb.com

>>(mainly here)
>>
>>Seems like it's probably a good road to continue down unless anyone thinks
otherwise
>>in which case I'll see you outside the meeting in the carpark tonight.
>>
>Personally I don't like it, as I think people throw the AP term around 
>incorrectly too much... it should be used to refer to a hardware AP or a 
>box in host ap mode, but people are just calling anything an AP, when 
>node is a more generic term.

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