John Poltorak wrote:

 

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 05:00:31PM -0500, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:
   

John -

On 12/10/2003 09:45 am, John Poltorak thus wrote :

     

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 09:10:42AM -0500, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:


       

All traffic must pass through the AP. There is no direct
station-to-station traffic.


         

Of course there is!



       

Not in infrastructire mode.
     

Obviously some misunderstanding here. I thought you meant there was no
direct station-to-station traffic in *any* circumstances...

   

BSS (Basic Service Set) defines the use of
an AP to pass station-to-station traffic. in fact, the Sputnik managed
access points which we are now deploying in hotspots (www.sputnik.com)
specifically preclude station-to-station transport through the AP for
security reasons (e.g., if I get an IP of 192.168.1.10, and you get an
IP of 192.168.1.11, we cannot ping one another).
     

Presumably they can if the AP is set as the default route...

   

An access point is not a router.  However there are router's with access point
functionality.  Anyway an AP doesn't route traffic.