There's a good chance I may be able to persuade Apple to donate a bunch
of 11Mb/s IEEE 802.11 Wireless/Ethernet bridges (the things we call
"AirPort") to IETF, on a permanent basis, for the meetings.
Any interest? How many would we want? A couple for the terminal room and
one each per meeting room?
These are absolutely standard 11Mb/s IEEE 802.11DS base stations, not
some proprietary Apple thing. PC users can get 802.11DS cards from
companies like Lucent: <http://www.wavelan.com/>
Is there a way to turn off the NAT in the AirPort access points? We've
had trouble here with PCs using them because the NAT implementation
doesn't handle NETBIOS. Also, given the general dislike of many people
in the IETF for NAT, it may not be something that the IETF wants to use
itself.