Greg Troxel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|What did you change your mind to?
Infrastructure mode, but only because my needs were well enough constrained
that I could get away with a horrible hack. I wanted multiple WiFi devices
within a mobile environment (e.g., one or more cars) to be able to communicate
with each other and to also be a part of my home network when in range. Adhoc
mode sounded ideal for this, but as I found it did not work well in a multi-
vendor environment (even ignoring the BSSID convergence problem). My answer
(and not a very original one) is to wire an access point and bridge back-to-back
in each mobile environment. When the environment is within range of home the
bridge will be connected and it doesn't matter whether the clients connect to
the mobile access point or one of the home access points. When the mobile
environment is out of range of home the clients can still talk to each other
via the mobile access point.
What might be really nice is a client that switches between infrastructure
mode and ad-hoc mode depending on the availability of an access point that
meets its requirements. Also interesting would be an access point that
acts as a repeater when in range of a parent but continues to act as a
stand-alone access point even when out of range.
Dan Lanciani
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