[MLB-WIRELESS] meshing

[Drew]

David Arnold wrote:

>-->"Drew" == Drew  <drew at wirelessanarchy.com> writes:
>
>  Drew> those running BSS (hardware access point or software prism2)+
>  Drew> omni/panel to provide access to clients in a park/coffee
>  Drew> shop/neighbors/any public place
>
>i think we can identify two sub-categories here also:
>
>1a) connections for a single machine (ie. laptop in coffee shop) or
>    even a NATed gateway, and,
>
>1b) connections from a router, itself offering connections to
>    downstream clients.
>
sure either of these could happen, but ideally, if a client is providing 
access to more clients, they should connect via directional to the 
upstream, but ideal probably isn't what's going to happen in this net ;)

>
>the difference between these being more in their IP address allocation
>policy than in their hardware configuration.
>
>also this need not be BSS mode -- i think IBSS will work for these
>purposes also, won't it?
>
yes, but clients are expecting BSS, again, idealy.


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