What is AD-Hoc mode for on wireless cards? And is there a way for two laptops to "see" or connect to each other using pcmcia cards? I have an Orinoco Silver card btw
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 10:37 AM Subject: nycwireless digest, Vol 1 #627 - 3 msgs > Send nycwireless mailing list submissions to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of nycwireless digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: limiting bandwidth (Jack Unger) > 2. Re: EAP-TLS authentication (Jacques Caron) > 3. Re: Re: EAP-TLS authentication (Kevin Arima) > > --__--__-- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 08:01:49 -0800 > From: Jack Unger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Abhishake Pathak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [nycwireless] limiting bandwidth > > Abhishake, > > Here are three sources for you to check out for bandwidth control > functionality: > > 1. www.karlnet.com (replaces your operating system with proprietary OS - > probably > won't work on WAP11 - karlnet has bandwidth control built-in to the > software) > 2. www.etinc.com (bandwidth control in external PC) > 3. www.ydi.com (external bandwidth control unit) > > It's good that you're addressing the bandwidth control issue. > You will be able to provide more users with reliable service that way. > > jack > > Abhishake Pathak wrote: > > > is there a way to limit the amount of bandwidth each > > user can utilize. i'm using a linksys wap11 if that > > information is needed. thank you very much. > > > > Abhishake > > > > -- > Jack Unger, President-Wireless InfoNet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (818)227-4220 > Vendor-Neutral WISP Seminars - http://www.ask-wi.com/2002workshops > Author - "Deploying License-Free Wireless WANs" > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1587050692/ > > > > --__--__-- > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:50:20 +0100 > To: Bon sy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Jacques Caron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [nycwireless] Re: EAP-TLS authentication > > Hi, > > Not sure I understand the question, but you need a client that has EAP-TLS > support. Might be built-in (as in Windows XP), or an add-on (for most other > OSes). > > For Windows XP and the free MS add-on for W2K (and soon other Windows > platforms), you need a card with NDIS 5.1 drivers (so-called Windows XP > drivers). Other implementations (for Windows, Mas OS, and various Unix > systems) can have various requirements regarding the type of card, driver > version, kernel version, etc. The EAP part is really not very hard (you > just need to be able to receive and send Ethernet frames with a given > Ethertype), the only "difficult" part can be setting some of the parameters > in the card (especially the keys), and not all cards have very good > (public) APIs on all systems. > > This being said, I believe that even if most platforms have one or more > supplicants available (Windows, Mac OS, Linux, *BSD...), I have quite some > doubts about the "smaller" platforms, e.g. Pocket PC and Palms, but there > is no reason this cannot be added at some point, someone just needs to do > it. It might be interesting to see how a Palm with a 16 MHz processor will > handle public-key cryptography, though... > > Hope that helps, > > Jacques. > > At 14:37 14/11/2002, Bon sy wrote: > >Please pardon me for a question that may be obvious. > > > >What's the assumption on the OS and wireless cards for supporting EAL-TLS > >authentication. In other words, any standard compatibility issues on using > >any OS and wireless cards as xsupplicants? > > > >Thanks! > > > >Bon > > > -- Jacques Caron, IP Sector Technologies > Join the discussion on public WLAN open global roaming: > http://lists.ipsector.com/listinfo/openroaming > > > > --__--__-- > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:26:56 -0500 (EST) > From: Kevin Arima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [nycwireless] Re: EAP-TLS authentication > > On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Jacques Caron wrote: > > > This being said, I believe that even if most platforms have one or more > > supplicants available (Windows, Mac OS, Linux, *BSD...), I have quite some > > doubts about the "smaller" platforms, e.g. Pocket PC and Palms, but there > > is no reason this cannot be added at some point, someone just needs to do > > it. It might be interesting to see how a Palm with a 16 MHz processor will > > handle public-key cryptography, though... > > > > The only time PKI or similar is involved is during the authentication > process and the rekeying process. As long as the device can handle > SSL-type transaction and store certificates (EAP-TLS requires client > certificates), then it shouldn't be a problem. > > Kevin "Starfox" Arima > > > > --__--__-- > > -- > NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ > Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ > Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ > > End of nycwireless Digest > -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
