From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Cc: dragoran <drago01@gmail.com>,
"Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler@intel.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
network manager <networkmanager-list@gnome.org>,
ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [ipw3945-devel] chaning mode only when interface down?
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:50:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1186152622.4647.48.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <sjmy7gswuvw.fsf@pgpdev.ihtfp.org>
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On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 10:33 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Um, what state? Sure you lose your layer 2 state, but why force a
> layer 3 lossage when you don't necessarily have to do so? For
> example, I've seen plenty of networks that have both 802.11(a) and
> 802.11(b/g) networks that share absolutely everything at layer 3.
> Indeed, at home I have an a/b/g AP where layer 3 is always shared. At
> the IETF last week it was also shared. I could easily roam from the
> 802.11(a) to the 802.11(b/g) network if my wireless driver would let
> me; the IP Address I've got is certainly valid on both networks. Why
> should the driver try to be smarter than I am?
Can you please re-read the original mail?
Thanks,
johannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-03 14:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-02 7:44 chaning mode only when interface down? dragoran
2007-08-02 9:14 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-02 9:16 ` dragoran
2007-08-02 12:17 ` [ipw3945-devel] " Winkler, Tomas
2007-08-02 12:34 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-02 12:41 ` Winkler, Tomas
2007-08-02 12:46 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-02 13:11 ` Tomas Winkler
2007-08-02 12:48 ` dragoran
2007-08-02 12:53 ` Johannes Berg
[not found] ` <f6ca9fed0708020643p53ceedcav76b14814b1b1cabd@mail.gmail.com>
2007-08-02 15:52 ` Derek Atkins
2007-08-03 9:41 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-03 14:33 ` Derek Atkins
2007-08-03 14:50 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2007-08-03 14:53 ` John W. Linville
2007-08-03 15:10 ` Derek Atkins
2007-08-02 18:51 ` Dan Williams
2007-08-03 9:42 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-03 11:20 ` Dan Williams
2007-08-30 22:24 ` blocking in dev->open (was: [ipw3945-devel] chaning mode only when interface down?) Johannes Berg
2007-08-02 9:18 ` chaning mode only when interface down? Andy Green
2007-08-02 9:59 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-02 18:47 ` Dan Williams
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