[Gllug] Wireless networking..

[pauln at truemesh.com]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 02:13:28PM +0000, Richard Cohen wrote:
 
> Not necessarily.  I have a Prism2 chipset card in my 'server', and there are
> drivers (alpha-level, but I've been using them for weeks without trouble) to
> let you use the card as a AP, meaning you can run the rest of the network in
> managed mode.  Gets you higher throughput and/or lower power use...

Yes but for all extents and purposes two cards running in IBSS mode
(ad-hoc under wireless tools) will work fine.  For home use I'd
recommend this and ipsec/cipe/zebedee for network encryption.

Cards in managed mode will happily connect in managed mode to an IBSS
ad-hco node.

Paul

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