On 10/24/07, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:28:16 +0100 > Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On 24 Oct 2007, at 15:41, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > > > ... > > > Simple home APs act just like that, no address for configs or > > > anything, just a bridge to another network. These devices have no > > > config at all, they simply create an SSID with no encryption to a > > > wired network. > > I had a belkin AP that I think was like this. The windows-only control > program (wasn't running wine at the time) was a big reason I will > probaby never buy one again. Once you build a real router, you never > go back... > > > > What he got is a WIRELESS ROUTER that acts like an Access Point, > > > providing a gateway and forwarding, linked to another router... > > > > Where do you find this particular definition of an "access point"? > > I would have believed the expression "wireless access point" to > > include either class of device within its definition. > > I agree. I think 'AP' has come to mean, perhaps a trifle informally, > simply a device to allow wireless access to a wired network. >
Exactly, at least where I live, if I go shopping for wireless devices, APs are mostly this, and wireless routers are APs with routing and forwarding. Its not like I was trying to define it, its simply how its referred in some online stores, and thus I assumed that was the case for the OP. Obviously I was wrong. No point in arguing that. -- Daniel da Veiga Filosofia de TI: Programadores de verdade consideram o conceito "o que você vê é o que você tem" tão ruim em editores de texto quanto em mulheres. Não, o programador de verdade quer um editor de texto do estilo "você pediu, você levou" - complicado, indecifrável, poderoso, impiedoso, perigoso. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
