Ben Barrett wrote:
> 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
802.11 works in several topologies. You're describing the
conventional topology: one or more access points connected to the
wired network, with wireless devices talking to the access points.
There are two additional topologies: Ad-hoc, where anybody talks to
anybody, and radio MAC forwarding, where some nodes forward packets
without involving protocols higher than the MAC layer. Most devices
don't support MAC forwarding (I think), so ad-hoc is what we're
interested in.
Note that Lucent's Linux driver only supports the WaveLAN cards in
"station" mode (a "station" is an endpoint), but the exact same card,
in an AirPort, is an access point. So it's a SMOP.
> Please someone send me some good links
What little I know about this subject, I learned here.
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.mac.html#topology
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