On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, David Young wrote:
>
> 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
yeah sorry, I meant bridge table.
> 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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