Eric Dunbar
eric.dunbar at gmail.com
Thu Nov 10 15:45:10 CST 2005
> 10. This is a suggestion for improvement.
> The Bos (not me) wants the Macs at school, when they're moved around the
> premises to automatically switch airports (access points). I can see
> this is problematic if different servers assign IP addresses as they
> move, but in our case the airports do not run DHCP servers, they are
> invisible to the IP transmission layers and it should work.
>
> I've not discovered how to do it on OS X (closing an opening the lid
> doesn't count), but if it can be done, then I think Ubuntu Linux should
> do it.
Sensible person, your boss :-)!
Seriously though, I don't quite understand your question.
Apple's Airport base stations are one of the few consumer (if not the
only consumer) 802.11b/g access points that can create a wireless
network which allows computers to "roam" whilst switching between
different basestations (some "high end" gear allows this kind of
roaming as well). If your Airports aren't doing this I suspect they're
configured in such a way that each of them is an independent access
point, rather than part of a larger roaming network.
Eric.
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