On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 12:57:18PM -0800, Mike Noyes scribbled:
> Scott C. Best, 2001-03-06 12:43 -0800
> > Good question. My understanding up to now was that an AP
> >was a layer-2 bridge from a wireless network into a wired LAN. At
> >least, that's what my 802.11 AP does here in the garage.
> WL-ACCESS is an Micro Access Point that performs as a transparent
> Media Access Control (MAC) bridge between wired Local Area Networks,
> and one or more WL-ACCESS wireless networks. Placed anywhere along
> an Ethernet LAN, WL-ACCESS allows wireless station in their coverage
> area to access transparently to the corporate network.
So, a wireless access point is just a bridge, one of whose interfaces
is a wireless interface.
Why is there a _project_ for this? It's about five minutes of
configuration (obviously, for somebody experienced) to make a
Linux box with the apporpriate interfaces into a bridge.
I hope that there's something I'm missing here, because if not,
when I get my pcmcia support working, I'll make a
pcmcia-ne2k -> WaveLan image just to bust their balls... ;)
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