In message <20021017152306.GA14062@pyy.jmp.fi>, Jukka Marin writes:
>On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 04:11:41PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
>> > I tried to get a win95 laptop talking to NetBSD 1.6 using Lucent
>> 
>> I do this with a Win98 system, and IIRC the windows driver needs to be
>> set to "base station" connection type, while NetBSD is in adhoc mode.
>
>If I do this, the machines will no longer be able to communicate
>directly, but have to go through the base station (I have three
>WLAN machines at the moment)?  This would be slower, I guess?

Right, and your NetBSD machine would have to be configured with IP 
forwarding.


>
>On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 10:19:54AM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>> That's not the way to do it.  You could put them both in ad hoc mode, 
>
>The windows software has "peer-to-peer" and "base station" modes (or
>some such).  Which one is "ad hoc"? :)

peer-to-peer is, I think, ad hoc.


>
>> or you can easily turn the NetBSD machine into a quasi-base station 
>> with the '-q networkname -c 1' options to wiconfig.  The latter starts 
>> up IBSS mode.
>
>I'll try this, too, but I'd rather keep my NetBSD boxes in "ad hoc"
>mode, if possible.
>
>> You need new-enough firmware on the NetBSD system's card.  See
>> http://www.live.com/wireless/unix-base-station.html for more 
>> information.
>
>Thanks, I'll check that.
>
That's for IBSS mode, which you don't want to use...

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