-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Darren Albers wrote: > On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> After some discussion in a related thread on fedora-devel, I've thought >> through the WiFi connection sharing a bit more, and been schooled on a >> few things. >> >> Mac OS X provides a full infrastructure-mode network when sharing an >> internet connection over wireless. It also provides DHCP to clients of >> that wifi network, and uses addresses in the 10.x.x.x space. >> >> Unfortunately, given the current driver situation, NM on Linux won't be >> able to do the same thing, since few drivers support master mode well at >> this time. Therefore, NM 0.7 will: >> >> 1) as the _originator_ of a wireless network, either by sharing a >> connection or creating a new wireless network, use 802.11 Ad-Hoc and >> provide a DHCP server (see below) >> >> 2) require opt-in to get IPv4 LL on device types known to usually use >> DHCP, requiring the user to pick between Auto-IP and DHCP (ie, Auto-IP >> and DHCP will be mutually exclusive) >> >> 3) Perform DHCP by default on Ad-Hoc networks, unless the user has opted >> into Auto-IP in the connection editor >> >> 4) use dnsmasq as the DHCP server for shared connections. The ISC dhcpd >> uses 20MB of RAM when running and that's just unacceptable. dnsmasq >> also provides proxied DNS, which is a nice bonus. >> >> Dan >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetworkManager-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list >> > > Since the network is ad-hoc I assume there won't be a way to set encryption?
Ad-Hoc can certainly use WEP. I don't know about the other methods well enough to say. - -- ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Systems Programmer II |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH1NYtmb+gadEcsb4RAkFuAKCMhOW65/HSx3R/IB2mnkQ2bc7KXACfTNms gyyXTlbXwe9YW4ZHBCuylE4= =bm4z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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