Roaming and WDS

[john extra]

Thanx for the insight Jun!

I hope my new understanding isn't too oversimplified...If roaming was really 
only about ESSIDs then would it be safe to say that any AP that has support 
for ESSIDs would allow clients to roam from AP to AP? So my clients could 
roam from my netgear AP to my HostAP AP if on the same subnet with the same 
ESSIDs and that's it?

I sure hope it's that simple...

John

>From: Jun Sun <jsun at junsun.net>
>To: john extra <df_co at hotmail.com>
>CC: hostap at shmoo.com
>Subject: Re: Roaming and WDS
>Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 13:49:26 -0800
>
>On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:29:06PM -0700, john extra wrote:
> > Hi All!
> >
> > I was wondering about the relationship between WDS and Roaming
>
>Those are two orthognal issues.  Roaming means multiple APs with
>the same ESSID allowing client to move around them.  Those APs,
>for example, can be connected through ethernet LAN and involves no
>WDS at all.
>
>WDS implies multiple APs connected through the radio (instead of ehternet
>LAN in the previous case).  I think in WDS case APs are even allowed
>to have different ESSIDs, which will actually disallow roaming .
>
>Jun


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