> 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.
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