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Re: IETF58 - Network Status - 12:05PM Local Time

2003-11-11 13:51:46
On 11-nov-03, at 11:04, Carsten Bormann wrote:

As for those people who run around with their cards in ad hoc mode, yes,
especially here, they should know better.

One problem may be those "helpful" features where the OS is switching to ad-hoc when there is no base station to be seen. In Mac OS X 10.2, you can disable that (switch off "Allow this computer to create networks" in Airport tab of Network pane), but you cannot disable joining to an existing IBSS if the base station goes away.

Hm, in that case it's probably better for Mac users to _not_ explicitly join the ietf58 network, but rather let it select the network automatically, as I doubt it will create an IBSS network under the name "ANY" when the base stations go away.