> You can use NICs as both. Open up an Airport, its essentially a
> cheap AMD 486 (x86) embedded motherboard with a cheap pcmcia controller
> and a wavelan card.
This goes against everything I have come to understand -- I thought part
of the way these nets are designed is that every user connects ONLY to the
central station, so that the only way to sniff another user (aside from
using non-wavelan technology, like a fancy scanner hooked up to some nifty
software) is on the server itself... If each node (which may be roaming)
is multipoint, could we not simply achieve instant ad hoc nets whenever
enough people use the right software?? ...every user node bounces their
neighbor's signal, eventually getting to the hardline somewhere?
Sorry I'm asking these potentially stupid questions without rtfm...
Please someone send me some good links regarding the ability of the
user-oriented cards to talk to one another -- I mean more than one other
at a time -- I thought I could only have a 2-node net if I put one card
each in my laptop and desktop... :^?
I remember being impressed at the 11mbps all over the OCF last year...
Who set that up, now? Mebbe they can sort a few things out for us.
ben
