[MLB-WIRELESS] [BSD] wavelan bridging (fwd)

[vortex]

for ubiquity, i recommend keeping configurations to ibss mode (peer to peer 
mode). at this stage (in terms of the 802.11b standards, or lack of them in 
this respect), there is little advantage to bss mode for open public access 
networks.

.vortex

On Sunday 31 March 2002  7:16 am, Adrian Close wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 12:01:55 -0700
> From: Theo de Raadt <deraadt at cvs.openbsd.org>
> To: "misc at cvs.openbsd.org" <misc at cvs.openbsd.org>
> Subject: wavelan bridging
>
> In the past, many of you have asked if you can do wavelan bridging.
> We kept saying no, because you cannot run the wavelan in AP mode.
> There's no way to to put these cards into AP mode.
>
> For prism II based cards, however, you now can.  Be sure to use a
> very new firmware on the cards, though.
>
> It should just work.
>
> original work (on a GPL driver) by jkmaline at cc.hut.fi, then rewritten
> to be BSD licensed by skibo at pacbell.net, then hacked into our tree by
> mickey, millert, and markus who wrote the replacement WEP code (since
> the BSD licensed code was from the USA).
>
> pretty groovy stuff.  It'd be nice if some users tested this as a base
> station.
>
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