[KLUG Members] Wireless

[Bryan-TheBS-Smith]

Dan Downs wrote:
> When the access points were plugged in we could ping any ip
> address and get a response even though the ip addresses
> didn't exist on the network.

FYI, just so you'all know, ping is an ICMP packet that acts much
differently than UDP or TCP.  And even when it comes to connectless
UDP v. connection/acknowledged TCP, in doing some AP-to-AP bridging
here at AVS, we solved numerous issues by using an UDP protocol
instead of a TCP one.  And that's just the layer 3 deal.

Again, 802.11 is very different than 802.3 for layers 1 & 2, even
though they share the same 802.1 protocols.

-- TheBS

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