From: Nigel Ballard (joejava_at_attbi.com)
Date: 2002-10-01 17:43:07 UTC
I thought Proxim/Orinoco were really close to the release of their Hot-Spot
AP with multiple SSID support? Maybe I heard that wrong.
Cheers Nigel
Nigel Ballard
Joejava Wireless Consultancy
nigel_at_joejava.com
www.joejava.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Thompson [mailto:jim_at_netgate.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 7:33 AM
To: Mody Sachin (Princeton)
Cc: 'Mark Kelly'; Martin Whitlock; Hostap_at_Lists. Ssh. Com
Subject: Re: Multiple SSID support
No commercial AP does (yet) in a standard release.
Symbol and Cisco are working on it. Others may too.
On Tuesday, October 1, 2002, at 08:01 AM, Mody Sachin (Princeton) wrote:
Hi,
Could post those links (to APs that support mmultiple SSIDs) on the
mailiing list. Alo what changes would be nedded in the hostap code to
support this kind of feature?
Regards,
Sachin Mody
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Kelly [mailto:wireless2025_at_yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 2:09 AM
> To: Jim Thompson; Martin Whitlock
> Cc: Hostap_at_Lists. Ssh. Com
> Subject: Re: Multiple SSID support
>
>
> HI Jim / Martin ,
> Can you please name the company whose AP's
> are supporting Multiple SSID . I would like to look
> into it . Please forward me documents / website link
> related to Multiple SSID support if u have .
>
> Thanks
> Mark
>
> --- Jim Thompson <jim_at_netgate.com> wrote:
> >
> > requires control over association, beacon and probe
> > response frames.
> > likely requires f/w changes.
> >
> > its really amusing to me, since I developed the idea
> > back in 1997, and
> > Cisco/Symbol/Lucent/Intermec/...
> > were all introduced to it by either me, or someone
> > after me @
> > Wayport... and for the longest time, they didn't
> > 'get it'.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > On Monday, September 30, 2002, at 11:27 AM, Martin
> > Whitlock wrote:
> >
> > > There are a few AP's coming up that supports
> > multiple SSID. What are
> > > the possibilities for HostAP to manage this? Could
> > for example be a
> > > cool feature if you want separate networks with
> > different rules
> > > regarding access control.
> > >
> > > /Martin
> >
>
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