Subject: Re: Wireless ethernet advise requested....
To: Ted Lemon <mellon@nominum.com>
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
List: current-users
Date: 10/01/2000 11:32:12
In message <200010010735.e917ZxK01174@grosse.bisbee.fugue.com>, Ted Lemon write
s:
>
>> I don't think this is really a fair criticism -- I don't think any
>> other access points that have only 1 slot will do this either...
>
>I mean that you can't do:
>
>
>  |                                                            |
>  |                                                            |
>  +---airport base-| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ |-airport base---+
>  |                                                            |
>  |                                                            |
>
>wire 1                                                      wire 2
>
>This, to me, seems like a pretty glaring omission.   :'(

Ah.

I hadn't thought about this [or rather, I had, but I had assumed it
would Just Work (tm)]; I suppose you've tested it and it doesn't work?

Thinking about it, I guess the problem is that both want to be in seperate
BSSes, and there's no way to make one join another BSS. Of course,
this is just a software issue, which makes "glaring omission" seems
a reasonable statement.

"Sigh".

On the other hand, the number of cases where you want to do this are
relatively limitted...

--jhawk