"Charles Chia Sheng Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|I wrote:
|
|>So how does a repeater register all its many MAC clients?
|
|give me an example of a repeater -
Well, in Cisco-speak it would be an access point (not a bridge) that is
not a root (i.e., has no wireline connection) but is participating in
the 802.1d spanning tree.
|it's probably not 802.11b compliant in
|repeater mode
Perhaps, but it isn't clear that this matters. All that matters is that
an 802.11-compliant access point can't stop you from registering multiple
MACs. A box that uses this technique rather than requiring you to patch
the access point firmware (or use a specific vendor's access point) would
be a useful product. Since (presumably) neither the patched firmware nor
the vendor-specific modes are "compliant" I can't see how it would be any
worse to make the client non-compliant (but universally compatible) instead.
This is basically what people hope the WAP11 client AP mode will do...
|>Clearly it
|>gets traffic for all of them because it passes this traffic along. The
|>AP to which it registers would have no way of knowing that it might lie
|>and claim that wireline MACs are really wireless clients.
|
|your talking completely different layers - distribution vs. access
I'm not following...
|>|now, if configured for routing or NAT, a client can bridge multiple MACs
|
|>Routers and NATs do not bridge at all. They can route IP packets to and
|>from multiple machines, but that is a completely different function.
|
|ok, bad langage, meant to say a client can pass multiple MACs,
How it is passing multiple MACs?
|b/c the STA
|still stays within spec (e.g., the AP only sees 1 MAC)
I haven't actually been able to find anything in the spec that prohibits
a single physical device from representing itself as multiple STAs, but even
if such a prohibition exists, who cares? I don't see how the access point
can tell one way or the other.
Dan Lanciani
ddl@danlan.*com
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