On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 08:44:57PM -0800, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> The speed at which a set of ap's can age you out of their arp table and
> forward packets between each other becomes an issue when you start roaming
> between ap's, if they're on different subnets at reasonable intervals then
> all your tcp connections will be going away quickly unless you have some
> kind of mobile-ip stack.
APs do not usually have ARP tables, but they may be attached to a
switched networks where "learning" is implemented at one or more levels.
The 802.11 Reassociate messages and an Inter-Access Point Protocol
(IAPP) are for updating the tables so that messages are switched to the
right place.
Dave
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