Re: Ad-hoc vs user-created

[Bernard Blackham <bernard blackham com au>]

On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 10:19 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > I guess that if you "create" an ad-hoc network even though it already
> > exists (as opposed to joining it), it'll skip straight to link-local
> > too?
> 
> Correct; but it's unclear why you'd do that.  If you see the network in
> your scan list, then you should just be able to click on it and NM will
> connect to that adhoc network and try to get DHCP.  If DHCP times out,
> it will do autoip.

So that you don't have to wait for the DHCP to timeout. (that's my only
reason for asking :)

Bernard.