2009/10/22 Daniel Drake <d...@laptop.org>: >> Ok, but if they are close enough it will work. The question is: if we >> tell all our nodes to use the same ESSID (or a set of 3 ESSIDs, one >> per freq), will independently created networks join and split >> reasonably well? > > No - ad-hoc is so simple that there is nothing in the design to make > this happen. It could happen by coincidence though, if circumstances > were to arise such that B were to become beacon master. This would > only happen if the existing beacon master dropped out for a while > *and* if B has a faster clock than the other remaining node. > > But then, a few minutes later, consider B becoming the beacon master, > C hosting a shared activity with a new node D, which cannot see B. > Same problem, and no "coincidental" solution other than everyone > moving into good radio range of each another.
Oops, I misread the part of the mail you were responding too. Ignore my example :) But my point still remains - networks will split undesirably, there will be some joins too but you can't control them and they will be unlikely to be as desired. Daniel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
