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!
I got a couple of wireless cards about two years ago, before I had an AP,
and managed to use them in a TCP/IP network without any trouble once I
figured out that such a thing as AdHoc mode existed.
> Also, it is possible to have an AP with no
> IP address in it. Early LinkSys units were like this; they configured
> either through SNMP or USB cable connected to a 'doze box.
>
> In answer to your initial question, I would imagine that it is possible
> to build an OS/2-based AP. It would be quite an undertaking, though!
Well, it's basically an absence of drivers. I don't think any software
exists which would enable an OS/2 system to work in Infrastruture mode,
but I would have thought it could simply be used as a router to the
Internet, if only there were OS/2 drivers for an ADSL NIC.
> On 12/10/2003 08:52 am, John Poltorak thus wrote :
>
> >On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 01:19:43PM -0600, Sam Lewis wrote:
> >
> >
> >>John Poltorak wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Is it possible to create an OS/2 Access Point?
> >>>
> >>>I see that IBM have produced instructions for building a wireless access
> >>>point on Linux. Wondered how much of it would apply to OS/2...
> >>>
> >>>Also can someone explain the difference between ad-hoc mode and the other
> >>>one (can't remember the name) ?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Ad-Hoc is peer to peer communication between two computers with Wireless
> >>NIC's. No access point is needed.
> >>
> >>Infrastructure mode is used when you have an access point which can be
> >>connected to your wired network. An access point is like a wireless Hub.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >So, in infrasture mode, if you had an AP on 192.168.0.1 and two computers
> >on 192.168.0.2 and 192.168.0.3, could you contact .3 directly from .2 or
> >would traffic have to be routed via .1?
> >
> >Presumably ad-hoc mode would allow direct access...
> >
> >
> >
> >>Sam
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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> Lewis
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