[Gllug] Wireless networking..

pauln at truemesh.com pauln at truemesh.com
Mon Feb 11 15:03:29 UTC 2002


On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 02:49:44PM +0000, Kim Hawtin wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 02:28:15PM +0000, pauln at truemesh.com wrote:

> > Cards in managed mode will happily connect in managed mode to an IBSS
> > ad-hco node.
> 
> if both your systems run linux/*bsd then running in ad-hoc mode is
> probably the prefered option. managed mode has nasty gotchas...

Sure, but if your linux/*bsd box is in IBSS mode a Windows PC can
happily talk in peer-to-peer or managed mode IIRC (been a while since
I've tested with Windows)

> i would prolly recommend getting bluffalo/lucent cards about 60-80

Seconded.

Paul

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