* Harlan Feinstein <harlan_at_feinsteins.net> on Fri, 11 Oct 2002
| There's a setting for it in the driver. I don't know anyone who uses
| ad-hoc mode, so no way for me to test it. I'm not even sure how an
| ad-hoc mode network would reach the internet.
Yes, the wavelan driver has an ad-hoc mode.
And the answer is, it generally cannot. Ad-hoc networks are like
connecting two machines together with Cat5 crossover cables. The two
machines can talk only to each other. Getting an ad-hoc network to talk
outside of itself requires one of the two nodes be a router for the other
and have a second network interface that somehow connects outside.
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