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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] 802.11 Access Points
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 11:47:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020411114749.F12505@cackle.proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020410121650.0371efd8@mail.real.com>; from skipt@real.com on Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 12:26:30PM -0700

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 12:26:30PM -0700, skipt@real.com wrote:
>
> I don't see the usefulness.  It seems to me getting a Plan9/cpu running
> with a wireless NIC would do the same thing. In this case you can run
> ppp over /dev/eia and get a better interconnect with the PC device too
> (rather than clunky terminal emulator business).
>
At $150 retail, it could be a very handy auth server, say.  Nevermind
access point with access control rules.

Hm, I really ought to explore this myself.

++L


  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-11  9:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-10 17:54 Lucio De Re
2002-04-10 19:26 ` skipt
2002-04-11  9:47   ` Lucio De Re [this message]
2002-04-11 14:04 plan9
2002-04-11 13:44 ` Lucio De Re
2002-04-11 17:03 plan9
2002-04-12  8:44 ` Matthew C Weigel
2002-04-11 18:33 bwc

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