What can be done with this WDS stuff...
Craig Foster
craig
Tue Feb 25 09:46:24 PST 2003
Yes (to most of your questions).
WDS is used to connect AP's wirelessly so that wireless clients associated
with AP-A and connect to wireless clients associated with AP-B without a wire
connecting AP-A with AP-B. So it does act as a repeater. The example in
Prism2.README should answer your questions about interfaces. Using WDS
creates special wlan#wds# interfaces for each WDS link.
(And bridging 2 wired nets together does not need WDS. Bridging with two Ad-
hoc cards or a Managed and a Master should do the trick.)
--
Craig Foster
craig at wiw.org
Jerry <mrcool at stupidgamerz.com> said:
> I dont imagine im understanding the WDS correctly... what can you do with
it besides bridging 2 wired nets together over wireless...??
>
> Can it be used as a wireless repeater? example: AP-A broadcasting to
clients, can AP-B associate (wds?) with AP-A and repeat the signal that AP-A
is broadcasting? as a remote repeater?
>
> anyone? if this was the case, then wlan0 would be the only interface
necessary on AP-B ? correct? ... or am i dreaming??
>
> Jerry
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