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                               The Wireless Net

Last week I again borrowed [1] Rob's [2] Cisco Airo 340 wireless PCMCIA
(People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms) card to use. I've been
trying to get it to work for the past two days (it isn't working because Rob
shut down the WAP (Wireless Access Point) as he started rearranging his room
and hasn't gotten back [3] to it yet) so I tried yet again.

This time, I brought up the interface, which seems to be fine, and ran a
network sniffer on it and found, to my surprise, not one, but two WAPs
nearby, given the ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) traffic I'm seeing. Given
the signal strength, I'm inclined to say that the two WAPs are in the same
building we're in, but I'm not 100% sure about that.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2002/06/05.2
[2] http://www.tragic-smurfs.com/
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2002/09/24.1

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