On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Can we impose a hard limit on the number of clients to prevent too >>> many XOs connecting to a single ad-hoc session? >> >> As James says... unfortunately no. > > This is possible on many wireless access points. Why isn't it possible > on the XO's ad-hoc? > > Is it because WAPs do it by limiting DHCP leases, whereas ad-hoc uses > link-local?
More generally, when you have a central node (the AP) there's a node that can carry the accounting, and has the "authority" to say who's welcome and who's not. I don't know if 802.11a/b/g/n has a mechanism to reject association, or if it's a dirty hack with only giving a liminted number of DHCP leases. Either way, ad-hoc peer model isn't well equipped for this limitation. cheers, m -- [email protected] [email protected] -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
