Two SSID's with the same network names ...

[Hal]

Why not use the web-based interface for one of the routers and change its
SSID to something different?

Hal

On 11/30/04 8:26 AM, "Michael Duffy" <mike.duffy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Brian,
> 
> Yes it is a network architecture problem, I will be changing (hiding)
> the SSID's in the next few days and adding WEP and whatnot after I
> have had a play around with them, but as I have just taken them out of
> the box they both have a default SSID and both issue the same IP's
> (Naturally running that out of the box config).
> 
> This presented me with the problem of being able to connect to an
> individual AP as generally an SSID is how the AP is 'known' as you
> mentioned.
> 
> Yes I could always just configure one at a time but I'm now more
> interested in conflicting SSID's, and selecting the one I want instead
> of the closest, than a quick configuration. :)
> 
> The AP's haven't been set up as bridges and don't have an ethernet
> bridge between them so when you connect to them individually (by
> turning one off or disconnecting an aerial etc) they act like two
> separate networks, just with identical SSID's ...
> 
> Mike.
> 
> On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 08:55:55 -0400, Brian Lloyd
> <brian at greenflashnetworks.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Nov 30, 2004, at 8:39 AM, Michael Duffy wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I have two WLAN's operating on individual private networks with the
>>> same SSID, unfortunately the driver will only select the hub with the
>>> strongest signal. I can see multiple network name entries for the
>>> SSID's in the "Network Name" dropdown box but when I select the second
>>> entry it just re-connects me back to the first hub (My basestation ID
>>> also reports the MAC address from the first basestation).
>> 
>> This is very strange.  Identical SSIDs implies that the two APs connect
>> to the same network and are functionally interchangeable.  This does
>> not sound like the case for you.  Why would you do this and not choose
>> a different SSID?
>> 
>>> Is there any way to input the basestation MAC addr instead of the SSID
>>> into the setup or to maybe restrict the channel to control which hub I
>>> can connect to ?
>> 
>> Well, that is the purpose of the SSID.
>>> 
>>> With the exception of this slight problem, the driver works
>>> fantastically ...
>> 
>> Well, this does not sound like a driver problem but rather one of
>> network architecture.
>> 
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>> 
>> 
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