[BBLISA] WAP add-on?

Daniel Hagerty hag at linnaean.org
Mon Jan 7 17:11:28 EST 2008


"Edward Ned Harvey" <bblisa2 at nedharvey.com> writes:

> It's so simple, being just a dumb WAP and all, no intelligence
> required for routing.

    As mentioned, you can expect the actual internal difference to be
the removal of the ethernet switch chip.

    Most people's idea of a minimal WAP includes a router "for free",
simply because they expect to use a web browser to configure it.  By
the time you've written an IP stack that can send and receive packets,
making it route them is in the noise.




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