On Saturday 17 March 2007, Kai Ponte wrote: > On Saturday 17 March 2007 01:02:30 pm John Andersen wrote: > > On Saturday 17 March 2007, Kai Ponte wrote: > > > > Well, I plan to make those notebook as a testbed for Linux HA (High > > > > Availability), so, just be able to ping each other is enough. > > > > > > Okay, that should be easy enough. > > > > > > So, in both instances you are setting up notebooks that are going > > > through a router? If not, you need a router - either one of the > > > notebooks, or another device/computer. > > > > Kai, you missed the topic of his thread. He wants to use just two > > notebooks, no router stuff, no Access Point. > > > > Adhoc should do this. Disclaimer: I've never tried it on Linux but > > it does work on windows. > > AFAIK, it couldn't be done - unless - one of the notebooks acts as a > router. I've never been able to do it successfully - in Windows or > otherwise.
Well ad-hoc mode implies ALL machines are routers and clients as best as I can tell. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_ad-hoc_network -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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