Dear Mircea,
On 26-Jan-99 Mircea Ciocan wrote:
> The BAD news is that with your setup you can NOT have roaming
> capabilities, because for roaming you must have the AP0 and AP1 coverage
> area overlapped with the same ESSID and diferent hopping sequence and
> the SA0 will associate with the closest AP and only if you can isolate
> somehow the SA0 input from AP0 frames by using VERY directional antena
> so the SA0 will associate ONLY with AP1 this setup will work. We tryed
> that but because of area overlaping and reflections it was not reliable,
> somehow the SA0 will allways associate with AP0 after some time and
> goodbye link between cells :(. So we take the safe road and use an extra
> AP for the link, giving him and SA different ESSID and HOPS, like the
> book said ;). This works perfectly AND gives you the seamingless roaming
> for those nice users ;)
Hmmm, did you also experiance this problem with the new PRO.11 models?
The "SA PRO.11" has a configuration option that is called prevered AP.
There you can type in HW Address of your prevered AP that you whana assosiate.
I was hoping that this might do the trick without the extra AP.
> P.S. I use this beasts for about 2 yrs, from the first models that
> appeared before the standard was finshed. So if have a need for help I'm
> available for a short contract relocation ;).
Nice idea. Might be not a too bad idea.
I have also used Linux for now almost 5 years. Did also quite a fare bit of
kernel programming with v4l for some specialized Framegrabber cards. However,
I'm new to this routing and rouming business. Maybe if I'm stuck then this
might be a nice option. You would have to remotely resolve problems on my
site...
Yop, I'm thinking about it.
Georg
>>
>> \ | / \ | /
>> +-------+ +------+ / +-------+
>> | AP 0 | +--+ SA 0 | - | AP 1 |
>> +---+---+ | +------+ \ +---+---+
>> | | |
>> | +--------------+ | |
>> | | Linux Box | | |
>> +---+ eth0 eth1 +--+ +--->
>> +--------------+
>>
>> Here, the SA0 together with the Linux Box should act like a wireless bridge.
>> I could use the LBox as a router with static path, that will definitively
>> work.
>> But that way I don't have any roaming capabilities.
>> Hence, I'm wondering if anybody has tried this.
>>
>> Looking forward to get some input.
>>
>> Georg Israel
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