Peer?

08-16-2001

Whilst scanning recently an AP appeared on Netstumbler which had a type of 'Peer' instead of 'AP' that comes up for all the other points I have found. The MAC address was also different, starting with '8A' instead of '00' like all of the others. The SSID was ANY and no vendor appeared. Can anyone shed any light on this kind of access point?

Cheers

08-16-2001

From what I understand a peer is a regular pc running either Unix or NT and using the wireless card / software combo as a pseudo-base station. I have seen it done with FreeBSD / Linux and I heard that it could be done in NT.

I hope that this helps

08-17-2001

i had a peer one following me for 10 minutes? maybe another stumbler? :-) was in traffic but way over the range of a regular ap.

08-17-2001

Just throwing my 2 cents but I thought peer would be the ad hoc networking option, being when two cards set up their cards to talk without an Access Point.

The part about seeing it for 10 minutes is interesting since by default the cards would be using their internal antenna's. Interesting...

Being as I have not tried the ad hoc networking yet I am unsure how this works in reality.

Under the lucent cards I believe there are Access Point, Residential Gateway (kind of cheap AP), and Peer to Peer Group (non AP) options.

John K.

08-16-2001	#1 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	Peer? Whilst scanning recently an AP appeared on Netstumbler which had a type of 'Peer' instead of 'AP' that comes up for all the other points I have found. The MAC address was also different, starting with '8A' instead of '00' like all of the others. The SSID was ANY and no vendor appeared. Can anyone shed any light on this kind of access point? Cheers

08-16-2001	#2 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	Peer - what it is From what I understand a peer is a regular pc running either Unix or NT and using the wireless card / software combo as a pseudo-base station. I have seen it done with FreeBSD / Linux and I heard that it could be done in NT. I hope that this helps

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08-17-2001	#3 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	i had a peer one following me for 10 minutes? maybe another stumbler? :-) was in traffic but way over the range of a regular ap.

08-17-2001	#4 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	Just throwing my 2 cents but I thought peer would be the ad hoc networking option, being when two cards set up their cards to talk without an Access Point. The part about seeing it for 10 minutes is interesting since by default the cards would be using their internal antenna's. Interesting... Being as I have not tried the ad hoc networking yet I am unsure how this works in reality. Under the lucent cards I believe there are Access Point, Residential Gateway (kind of cheap AP), and Peer to Peer Group (non AP) options. John K.