[MLB-WIRELESS] Generic SSID?

Tim Hogard thogard at knotty.abnormal.com
Mon Jun 27 12:40:20 EST 2005


Re: seamless romaing...
It comes down to two issues:
1) is the netwrok large enough to support romaing?
2) is it useful to have a unique id for a node when hunting for them
from var away.

At this time the answer to the 1st question is no 
giving nodes a node name that can be found in the node database
means its helpful when doing long links so at this poing I don't
see any advantage for having everyone use the same ssid.

-tim
http://web.abnormal.com

> 
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 10:45:41AM +1000, Dan Flett wrote:
> > >
> > >To have "seamless" roaming do all the AP's in the desired network have to 
> > >have the same SSID, and the client lock onto (associate) to the strongest?
> > 
> > I believe most APs support this feature - even Minitars support it.  I 
> > forget the actual technical name of the box that appears in the web 
> > interface that needs to be ticked, but it is roaming.  I'm not sure if it's 
> > possible to offer roaming across APs from different manufacturers - it may 
> > be if they support the aforementioned standard (not really a standard 
> > though.)
> 
> http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/download/802.11F-2003.pdf
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