--On 10. november 2005 20:33 -0500 Marshall Eubanks <tme(_at_)multicasttech(_dot_)com>
wrote:
I honestly think that there is something more than that. I have seen
dozens of instances of "IETF64" as an ad hoc network. (I see 6 sitting
here in the plenary.)
Unless there is someone with a perverse sense of humor spoofing me, I
suspect that people are
trying to join to the ietf64 network and getting it wrong, both in
captialization, and in
configuration. (Oddly, I have yet to see "ietf64" as an ad hoc network.)
Of course, when the network availability is poor, mis-configuration
doesn't stand out like it does
when everyone else in on the network except you.
I do wonder if our diagnoses are wrong - the number of W2K laptops in the
world (and at the IETF meetings) seems to be *decreasing*, while the number
of ad-hoc mode nodes is *increasing*, despite our attempts at user
education by posting to the IETF list......
It came as a surprise to me when I encountered, this weekend, a public WLAN
that required people to configure their PCs in ad-hoc mode (they said the
base station was running in IBSS mode, not BSS - whatever that means).
It would be a Really Good Thing if we could have equipment available in
Dallas to locate a few of these laptops and check out what's *actually*
going on with them (OS, drivers, configuration....)
Barking up the wrong tree is fun, but doesn't help catch the cat.....
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